conservative Christianity

Farewell to the senator's son who pioneered a TV genre, helped create the Christian right, ran for president, and earned the grudging respect of Abbie Hoffman.

TOGETHER ’22 aims to mimic EXPLO ’72 — which provided hints about the rising conservative evangelical tide.

Former followers of an evangelical “purity” movement that promoted a strict view of abstinence are grappling with aftershocks.

A roundup of historians' commentary about Billy Graham in the wake of his death.

How evangelicals became an anxious minority seeking political protection from a not traditionally religious president.

One historian, who also happens to be an evangelical Christian, says no.

Donald Trump's children aren't the only family members with political power in the Trump administration.

The right has had qualms about universities since the 1930s.

Conservative curricula are being pushed into tax-funded history classrooms.

The American right doesn’t need the John Birch Society these days, but that is because it’s adopted the Birchers’ extremism wholesale.

The Reagan administration thought Surgeon General C. Everett Koop would put his faith above public health. Instead, Koop sent all Americans a mailer on AIDS.

Dwight L. Moody and the 1884 Haymarket Affair offer a look at what happens when Christians side with the wealthy instead of working class.

Jonathan Edwards’s sermon reflects the complicated religious culture of eighteenth-century America, influenced not just by Calvinism, but Newtonian physics as well.

Americans helped spread a right-wing version of evangelical Christianity in Brazil. Now it has played a role in an insurrection.

Religious conservatives see “anti-eugenic” laws as the most promising path to establish a federal ban on abortion.

It’s a political movement willing to align with anyone to win.

What we can learn from fifty years of anti-abortion propaganda.

In the 1990s, liberal intellectuals complained that evangelicals were moralistic on political questions. Now the complaint is reversed.

Fifty years ago, zealots preaching misogyny and homophobia—led by an accused sexual predator—took over America’s largest Protestant denomination.

Liberal Protestants built a global elite in the 20th century. Its fracturing holds a caution for evangelicals today.