Belief

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on civil rights?

For all of his personal Christian devotion, he could not capture the hearts of white evangelicals.

The Baptist Georgia governor won evangelical Christian voters in the 1976 presidential election. Next time around, those voters changed sides—for the long haul.

Tim LaHaye bridged Reagan-era anti-Communism to today’s Christian Nationalism, opposing humanism, evolution, and secularism, emphasizing biblical morality.

The rise and fall of an evangelical church, founded with progressive intentions and undone by dissension and bad faith.

The bishops once used their influence to encourage nuclear disarmament. Can they do so again now?

Jack Chick and the origins of the 1980s “Satanic Panic."

To understand discourse around “Christian nationalism,” look no further than the abolitionist hailed by many on the left.

The ideas he popularized will continue to shape evangelicalism for generations to come.

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War.

Rains of blood and frogs, mysterious disappearances, objects in the sky: these were the anomalies that fascinated Charles Fort in his Book of the Damned.

From early New England to the present day, censors have acted out of fear, not prudishness.

Norma Gabler's work in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s foreshadowed today's campaigns.

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, evangelical American missionaries followed military tanks into Afghanistan and Iraq to convert Muslims.

Marion Gibson’s research rigorously traces the legal and human aspects of the trials through today.

A truly Christian postliberalism would imagine and enact an alternative modernity with a different standard of progress.

The Trump campaign is signaling that it intends to make the U.S. a "Christian nation." Here's what that idea looked like in history.

From the ruins of the Spanish Civil War to air force bases in Texas.

Sometimes an accused witch was believed to have had a dog who would do her bidding; to others, the devil appeared in the form of a dog.

The "parental rights" movement, rooted in colonial theocracy, has evolved into a political force resisting racial, gender, and educational equality.

A changing political mood among evangelicals has many believers imagining the end of the world differently than they used to.

Some Americans who have lost faith in traditional institutions are finding spirituality in this Denver church—and in themselves.

The path to winning the Black vote no longer runs through the church door.

Anti-war politics has a rich historical tradition, one that seems to be in desperate need of revival.

Today, the international feminist group FEMEN uses nudity as part of its protests. But appearing naked in public was also a tactic used by early dissenters.

In the 1970s, some athletes began questioning the alliance between sports, conservative Christianity, and politics.

But unlike today's white Christian nationalism, Black church leaders called for healing internal divisions through engagement.

Exploring the role mainline Protestants have played in promoting the idea of America as a Christian country.

Any attempt to understand the complexities of American economic thought without considering the significant role of religious beliefs is incomplete.

The surprising influence of premillennial eschatology on American culture.