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Evangelical lobbyist Peggy Nienaber (R) claims she prayed with Supreme Court justices as her organization was writing amicus briefs on cases like Dobbs.

Can SCOTUS Majority Learn the Lessons of Early America Before it's Too Late?

Breaking down the myths of originalism and America's founding.
The cover of the book "This Earthly Frame," depicting clouds swirling around the US Capitol dome.

The Struggle to Make the United States Secular

How progressives came to think that any recognition of Christianity by a public institution violates others’ rights.
In 1992, a fire burns out of control at 67th Street and West Boulevard in South Central Los Angeles. (Paul Sakuma/AP)
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The L.A. Uprisings Sparked an Evangelical Racial Reckoning

But it remains unfinished.
Photos of children from the cover of "The Crisis," 1916

‘Anxious for a Mayflower’

In "A Nation of Descendants," Francesca Morgan traces the American use and abuse of genealogy from the Daughters of the American Revolution to Roots.
Man holding a poster of Malcolm X, African American Day Parade, 2010 in Harlem.

Malcolm X’s Gospel

A look into how Malcolm X employed gospel rhetoric to critique the mainstream civil rights movement for catering to white Christianity.
Nimrod and His Companions Venerating Fire, by Rudolf von Ems, c. 1400.

Enjoy My Flames

On heavy metal’s fascination with Roman emperors.
Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers speaking before the appearance of former president Donald Trump at a Save America Rally on Jan 15th in Florence, Arizona.
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The Bond That Explains Why Some on the Christian Right Support Putin’s War

Russia has become an ally in a global movement.
Painting of a Puritan family sitting around a table with books.

Read More Puritan Poetry

Coming to love Puritan poetry is an odd aesthetic journey. It's the sort of thing you expect people partial to bowties and gin gimlets to get involved with.

Why So Many Guns on Christmas Cards? Because Jesus was ‘Manly and Virile.’

Muscular Christianity — with scriptural interpretations that can favor “stand your ground” over “turn the other cheek” — has a long tradition in the U.S.
Illustration of bishops titled "The Mitred Minuet"

No Bishops, No Kings: Religious Iconography and Popular Memory of the American Revolution

Popular religious iconography and art in the decades preceding the Revolution offer a fuller narrative arc of the development of revolutionary ideas within American society.

The Failure of American Secularism

How the secular movement underestimated the endurance of religion.
Marian Anderson looking downwards

Marian Anderson’s Bone-Chilling Rendition of “Crucifixion”

Her performances of the Black spiritual in the nineteen-thirties caused American and European audiences to fall silent in awe.
Photo of Philip Rieff at microphone waiting to speak

The Importance of Repression

Philip Rieff predicted that therapy culture would end in barbarism.
Image from front cover of Bad Faith.

The Evangelical Abortion Myth

The rhetoric about abortion being the catalyst for the rise of the Religious Right collapses under scrutiny.
A newspaper drawing of the Nat Turner Rebellion.

Looking for Nat Turner

A new creative history comes closer than ever to giving us access to Turner’s visionary life.
Members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

The Secret Feminist History of the Temperance Movement

The radical women behind the original “dump him” discourse.
Rev. Timothy McDonald III in First Iconium Baptist Church
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Attacking Sunday Voting is Part of a Long Tradition of Controlling Black Americans

The centuries-long battle over Sunday activities is really about African Americans' freedom and agency.
James Weldon Johnson.

James Weldon Johnson’s Ode to the “Deep River” of American History

What an old poem says about the search for justice following the Capitol riot.
An illustration of people digging in an archaeological site in the shape of a cross.

Unearthing the Faithful Foundations of a Historic Black Church

In Colonial Williamsburg, a neglected Christian past is being restored.
Lithograph depicting John Eliot standing in the light and preaching to the a group of solemn, reflective American Indians sitting on the ground

How Plague Reshaped Colonial New England Before the Mayflower Even Arrived

Power, plague and Christianity were closely intertwined in 17th-century New England.
Two men stand in a church doorway.

The Revival of Church Sanctuary

How a long-abandoned practice became a way for undocumented immigrants to seek protection.
The Alchemy of Conquest book cover

The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World

How scientific thought informed colonization and religious conversion during the Age of Discovery.
The burning bush from Exodus, against a background of Egypt and the American South.

The Roots of the Black Prophetic Voice

Why the Exodus must remain central to the African American church.

Racism Among White Christians is Higher Than Among the Nonreligious. That's no Coincidence.

For most of American history, the light-skinned Jesus conjured up by white congregations demanded the preservation of inequality as part of the divine order.
Billboard for "Gateway to the Canyons" featuring a painting of Plains Indians meeting Spanish Catholic monks.

The Black Legend Lives

A review of "Escalante’s Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest."
Warner Sallman's "Head of Christ" painting.

How Jesus Became White — and Why It’s Time to Cancel That

Nearly a century later, both ‘Head of Christ’ and criticism of its role in enshrining Jesus as white endure.
Washington takes the oath of office surrounded by Founders.

The Faith of the American Founders

What were the religious beliefs of the American founding generation? What do they mean for us today?
Demonstrators protest COVID public health measures.
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Conservative Fatalism About the Coronavirus Might Actually Help Us

The philosophy behind calls to lift stay-at-home orders.

The Thrill of the Chase

Why are Americans so obsessed with tornadoes? A brief tour of twister culture has the answer.
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the Freedom March on Washington in 1963.

How a Heritage of Black Preaching Shaped MLK's Voice in Calling for Justice

A long heritage of black preachers who played an important role for enslaved people shaped Martin Luther King Jr.‘s moral and ethical vision.

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