Belief

The fundamentalist movement took the war as an opportunity to rebrand.

While sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention has recently come to light, it's not new.

A dark chapter in the history of religious persecution.

How stories of abuse in minority religious communities have influenced American culture.

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

Smithsonian curator of religion Peter Manseau weighs in on a history that must be told.

For some Lebanese immigrants, religion was a comfort, providing a sense of home in an new world. For others, it was a constant reminder of what was left behind.

It was among the first social issues to split American Protestants into liberal and conservative camps.

A story of a philosopher, his sister, and belief.

"We are living in an age of historical reckoning," said Southern Baptist leader R. Albert Mohler Jr.

Remembering Howard Thurman and other forgotten activists.

Religious conservatives used the Bush presidency to launch their takeover of the GOP.

Our secular government is all tangled up with God. How did we get here?

Four historians weigh in on evangelicals' affinity for Trump – and their commitment to the conservative movement more broadly.

The 140-year journey from the streets of London's East End to the parking lot of your nearest mall.

American isn't a Christian nation, but missionaries have always played an integral role in U.S. diplomacy.

The fable of George Washington's prayer was meant to foster religious tolerance, not paint him as a pious leader.

To understand Catholic overrepresentation on the U.S. Supreme Court, we must look to the history of American Catholic education.

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.

Considering the religious roots of the 1960s anti-militarist counterculture.

American evangelicals once saw the Soviet Union and other communist countries as the world’s greatest threat to their faith.

In football, prayer is—and has always been—political.

In the wake of abuse scandals, lay people, not priests, should have more power.

A review of Gary Dorrien's new book, “Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel.”

The debate among American Christians over globalism and nationalism is nothing new — rather, it has been going on for decades.

Many Southern Baptists in the 1970s supported abortion rights and gender equality. What happened?

In the minds of some Southern Protestants, slavery had been divinely sanctioned.

To convert was not just a matter of belief, but also a claim to power.

The history of evangelicalism in America is shot through with fear—but it also contains an alternative.

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