Belief

A new take on the origins of our ideas about religious liberty.

How a meeting in Philadelphia changed American religion forever.

From prehistoric caves, through Aztecs, Mormons, Beat poets, Jean-Paul Sartre and a British MP.

One emphasized the freedom to think; the other, in effect, the freedom to pray.

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

Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?

Before the 1990s, evangelical Christians were busier resettling newly arrived refugees than trying to keep them out.

Megachurches represent an enduring model of ecclesial organization in Protestantism.

Islamophobes today ignore the long history and contributions of Muslim Americans.

A Q&A with author Katharine Gerbner about "Protestant Supremacy."

A new book argues that, politically, messianic movements were often light-years ahead of their time. But at what cost?

A review of Daniel T. Rodgers’ "As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon."