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Painting depicting the Salem Witch Trials.

Did the Witch Trials Ever Truly Come to an End?

Marion Gibson’s research rigorously traces the legal and human aspects of the trials through today.
Illustration of Martin Luther holding an American flag.

America’s Mythology of Martin Luther

Luther is part myth, mascot, and mantle, symbolizing the hopes and sanctifying the heroes of American evangelicalism.
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500 Years Ago Christianity Changed. It Changed Again in the 1960s.

That the 500th anniversary of Luther’s act has been noted without éclat may be something to celebrate.
an organ player and his wife and dog drawing from 1495.

The Real Housewives of Church History

How pastors’ wives use power and submission.
Painting of Renaissance poets reading and chatting together.

The Strange History of University Autonomy — and Why We Need It More Than Ever

Academic freedom from the Middle Ages to apartheid South Africa to now.

The Sum of Our Wisdom

We are told that we are a Calvinist culture, which means very little, and none of that good.
German revolutionary and later Union officer in the US Civil War Franz Sigel.

From Slavery Abolition to Public Education, German Radicals Made American History

The United States has forgotten the radical German American immigrant socialists who spilled blood for antislavery and other liberatory causes.
People pray outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2022.

Separation of Church and State Has Always Been Good for Religion

The US Supreme Court's most recent decisions undermine centuries of established secularism within American government.

The Long History of Debt Cancellation

Moral thinking about debt has fluctuated throughout U.S. history. Today’s calls for cancellation suggest it may be poised for transformation once again.
Lakewood megachurch.

Supersized Christianity: Protestant Megachurches in America

Megachurches represent an enduring model of ecclesial organization in Protestantism.

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