Christianity

An entire industry wouldn't exist without him, yet few know his name. In his songs, Knott challenged the faithful to examine their faults and hypocrisies.

Jefferson revised the Gospels to make Jesus more reasonable, and lost the power of his story.

In the 1960s, youth counterculture spawned Christian rock.

The genre has been disdained by the church and mocked by secular culture. That just reassured practitioners that they were rebels on a righteous path.

Rock music owes much of its claim to coolness to the Christian faith.

"Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century" by Geoffrey R. Stone.

Megachurches represent an enduring model of ecclesial organization in Protestantism.

Did the Founders want us to be faithful to their faith?

I’ve been going back to eastern Kentucky for over a decade. Since 2016, something there has changed.

A classic New Yorker account of the Henry Ward Beecher adultery trial recalls a time in America that seems both incomprehensible and familiar.

You can thank Eric Voegelin for the right’s clichéd catchall critique for the left.

How Keith Haring got his halo.

It’s important to remember why analogies to Jesus should stay out of the political realm. The results are always ugly.

Right-wing evangelicalism’s moral and religious descent into Trumpism has been near-total. Is there a way out?

Since colonial times, the Book of Esther has proved a powerful metaphor in American politics.

Christian moralists long promoted hobbies as a way to occupy idle hands, bringing the work ethic into free time. Today hobbies risk turning into side hustles.

Kevin Cook and Jeff Guinn on David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and the 1993 siege of Waco.

'All men are created equal' coexisted with the understanding that not all were meant to be treated equally in life.

Requiring rest, rather than work, is still a radical idea.

A conversation about James Baldwin’s 1967 essay, “Negroes are Anti-Semitic Because They are Anti-White.”