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Freedom vs. Liberty: Why Religious Conservatives Have Begun to Chose One Over the Other

Religious "freedom" and "liberty" have always had different connotations.
by Stephanie Russell-Kraft via Religion Dispatches on October 12, 2016

American Secular

The founding moment of the United States brought a society newly freed from religion. What went wrong?
by Sam Haselby via Aeon on May 26, 2016
Lakewood megachurch.

Supersized Christianity: Protestant Megachurches in America

Megachurches represent an enduring model of ecclesial organization in Protestantism.
by Joshua D. Ambrosius via Dissertation Reviews on April 26, 2016

TIME's 'Is God Dead?' Cover Turns 50

How the April 8, 1966, cover of TIME set off a firestorm.
via TIME on April 8, 2016
Woman sniffing perfume in a magazine ad.

Our Pungent History: Sweat, Perfume, and the Scent of Death

Throughout the long and pungent history of humanity, smelling healthy has been as delightful as it has disgusting.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on March 8, 2016

Bernie Sanders Bids for Jewish History

The Vermont senator isn’t religious, but a victory in Iowa or New Hampshire would be the first ever for a Jewish presidential candidate.
by Russell Berman via The Atlantic on January 27, 2016
Students and teacher talking about homework at Islamic School in Seattle.
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Islam and the U.S.

What does it mean to be Muslim in America? And how has the practice of Islam in the U.S. changed over time?
via BackStory on December 18, 2015
Engraving of Hawaiian high chief Ka‘iana

When Hawaii Was Ruled by Shark-Like Gods

19th century Hawai‘i attracted traders, entrepreneurs, and capitalists, who displaced, a flourishing and elaborate culture.
by Patrick Vinton Kirch via New York Review of Books on December 3, 2015
Billy Graham and Richard Nixon

The King’s Chapel and the King’s Court

Richard Nixon, Billy Graham, and their White House church services.
by Kevin M. Kruse via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on July 7, 2015
Visa as the Mark of the Beast, as imagined by a 1960s Christian tract.

Technology and Apocalypse in America

Some sects of Christian belief have long held that various forms of technology were signs of an approaching apocalypse.
by Daniel Salas via The Appendix on August 27, 2014
C. L. Franklin and his daughter Aretha.

The Man with the Million Dollar Voice

The mighty but divided soul of C.L. Franklin.
by Tony Scherman via The Believer on July 1, 2013
Brigham Young

The Reds Under Romney’s Bed

The most ambitious social experiment in American history that until 1877, explicitly rejected the core values of Victorian capitalism.
by Mike Davis via Los Angeles Review of Books on October 25, 2012
Photo of a newspaper referring to Jewish riots in the New York Times

The Festive Meal

There once was a time when Yom Kippur was a time to eat, drink, and be merry.
by Eddy Portnoy via Tablet on September 24, 2009
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The Truth About Thanksgiving Is that the Debunkers Are Wrong

A response to claims that the First Thanksgiving was not a "thanksgiving" as the Pilgrims understood it.
by Jeremy Bangs via HNN on September 1, 2005
Illustration of a man typing on a computer with the Star of David as the computer's image.

The Return of the Jewish Question

The “Jewish Question” is a scapegoating conspiracy. This essay traces its appeal, partial truths, and why it falsely absolves America of blame.
by David Azerrad via Compact on December 22, 2025
The "Lead Me, Guide Me" hymnal sitting on a map of Colorado.

Why a Denver Priest was Wrong to Treat Black Catholic Hymnals Like Garbage

On the racist errors that caused a significantly Black parish in Colorado to lose a hallmark of African-American liturgy.
by M. Roger Holland II via Black Catholic Messenger on December 22, 2025
A Catholic church.

Crabgrass Catholicism

A discussion with Father Stephen M. Koeth about religion and suburbanization.
by Colin Woodard, Stephen M. Koeth via The Metropole on December 3, 2025
"A City of Fantasy" painting from the mid 19th century
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The First Futurists and the World They Built

From Saint-Simon to Silicon Valley, the urge to forecast the future has always masked a struggle over who gets to define it.
by Jake Pitre via JSTOR Daily on December 3, 2025
The Founding of Maryland by Emmanuel Leutze (1634).

Bejesuited: America’s First Catholics

A history of Catholic immigration and activity in colonial North America.
by Malcolm Gaskill via London Review of Books on November 28, 2025
Garden rows on the cover of "Free Range Religion"

How Religious Food Movements Paved the Way for MAHA

A window into the ways that religious people have participated in and shaped the alternative food movement.
by Adrienne Krone via UNC Press Blog on November 19, 2025
The American flag as two speech balloons.

The Ideal That Underlies the Declaration of Independence

Restoring stability to American politics will require reviving an age-old concept: common ground.
by Walter Isaacson via The Atlantic on November 9, 2025
Drawing of two men with axes.
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History According to Robert Bork

How the conservative scholar’s 1996 bestseller anticipated blaming everything on “woke.”
by Toby Jaffe via HNN on November 4, 2025
Portrait of Reverend Cotton Mather by Peter Pelham, 1727; and woman having seizure at Salem Witch Trials.

The Conspiracist Cotton Mather

The zealot who oversaw the Salem Witch Trials initially voiced restraint—what changed?
by Colin Dickey via The American Scholar on October 29, 2025
Men and women leaving a church in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1936.

The Trial of the Century

On the hundredth anniversary of Tennessee v. Scopes.
by Brenda Wineapple via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 27, 2025
Illustration of enslaved people and animals presented to the Pharaoh in ancient Egypt.

Pharaohs in Dixieland – How 19th-Century America Reimagined Egypt to Justify Racism and Slavery

Southern businessmen and thinkers were inspired by ancient Egypt: To them, it served as proof that all great civilizations were sustained by enslaved labor.
by Charles Vanthournout via The Conversation on October 20, 2025
Christopher Columbus

On the Mysteries, Real and Imagined, Surrounding Christopher Columbus

Columbus lives on as a political and cultural symbol—hero, villain, myth—revealing how belief, not fact, shapes history.
by Matthew Restall via Literary Hub on October 13, 2025
George Washington portrait in which he rests his hand on his hip.

A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic

A Quaker abolitionist hoped to convince the Virginian Founders to end slavery by appealing to their sense of manhood. They were not persuaded.
by Kathleen Telling via Age of Revolutions on October 13, 2025
Cloverlick Freewill Baptist Church in Harlan County, KY.

For Many Miners, Religion and Labor Rights Have Long Been Connected in Coal Country

The retirement of United Mine Workers of America’s longtime president is a reminder that labor and religion have always been entangled in coal country.
by Richard J. Callahan, Jr. via The Conversation on October 7, 2025
A lithograph illustrating the discovery of iguanodon fossils in Bernissart, Belgium, 1878

The Fight Over the Meaning of Fossils

When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the U.S., it opened up a heated debate on the nature of time and the purpose of science.
by Andrew Katzenstein via The Nation on September 22, 2025
Château Margaux.

The Wine Key to the Constitution

How the vineyards of Bordeaux led to the wall of separation between church and state.
by Donald L. Drakeman, Lisa Drakeman via Law & Liberty on September 17, 2025
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