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Protesters outside the Supreme Court on December 5, when oral arguments were heard in 303 Creative LLC v. Eleni.

The New Faith-Based Discrimination

A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.
by Louise Melling via Boston Review on December 14, 2022
Black and white illustration of immigrants on a boat sailing into the harbor next to the Statue of Liberty.

How Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe Were Introduced to Whiteness

That status has been taken as obvious, then questioned, then reasserted over the decades.
by Emily Tamkin via Literary Hub on November 3, 2022
Illustration of Martin Luther holding an American flag.

America’s Mythology of Martin Luther

Luther is part myth, mascot, and mantle, symbolizing the hopes and sanctifying the heroes of American evangelicalism.
by Obbie Tyler Todd via The Gospel Coalition on October 30, 2022
Diorama of a cluster of houses and people along a waterfront, with a ship in the foreground.

On the Rich, Hidden History of the Banjo

The banjo did not exist before it was created by the hands of enslaved people in the New World.
by Kristina R. Gaddy via Literary Hub on October 24, 2022
Congressional candidate and civil rights activist Julian Bond on primary election night in Atlanta, Georgia, surrounded by microphones.

Atlanta, Georgia, Was a Center of Anti-Apartheid Organizing

The common picture we get of the US South is one of resolute conservatism. But the region has a radical history, too.
by Zeb Larson via Jacobin on October 10, 2022
Earthen mounds at Louisiana State University.

Oldest Human-made Structure in the Americas Is Older Than the Egyptian Pyramids

The grass-covered mounds represent 11,000 years of human history.
by JoAnna Wendel via Live Science on August 26, 2022
Panel of medieval-era paintings depicting humans and animals.

When Did Racism Begin?

The history of race has animated a highly contentious, sometimes fractious debate among scholars.
by Vanita Seth via The Chronicle of Higher Education on August 19, 2022
Johnathan Edwards.

How Jonathan Edwards Influenced Southern Baptists

Southern Baptists were seeking a religion of the heart, and in Edwards they discovered a trove of treatises, biographies, and sermons on Christian spirituality.
by Obbie Tyler Todd via The Gospel Coalition on July 29, 2022
An Equestrian Statue of King George III, Bowling Green, New York City prior to the Revolution.

Interpretations of the Past

How the study of historical memory created a new reckoning with the creation of “American history."
by Michael D. Hattem, Max Pierce via Public Seminar on July 25, 2022
Photo of Joseph Smith

Mormon Founder Joseph Smith's Photo Discovered by Descendant After Nearly 180 Years

A great-great-grandson of Joseph Smith Jr. found the Mormon prophet’s photo tucked inside a locket passed down for generations.
by Jana Riess via Religion News Service on July 21, 2022
Pauli Murray, with a bookshelf and a cross behind her.

The Episcopal Saint Whose Journey For Social Justice Took Many Forms, From Sit-Ins To Priesthood

Pauli Murray, the first Black woman to be ordained by the Episcopal Church, was an advocate for women’s rights and racial justice.
by Sarah Azaransky via The Conversation on June 28, 2022
Robert Adams, “Tract House, Longmont, Colorado,” 1973.

Robert Adams Looked Past Despair and Found the Truth of America

"To render the world more beautiful than it really is, as so many landscape photographers before Adams routinely did, is dishonest."
by Philip Kennicott via Washington Post on June 27, 2022
Harriet Tubman in the late 1860s.

When Harriet Tubman Met John Brown

Looking back at the short but deep friendship of John Brown and Harriet Tubman, who gave their lives to the abolitionist cause.
by Paul Bowers via Jacobin on June 19, 2022
Minnehaha County Courthouse

Seeking the Last Remnants of South Dakota’s ‘Divorce Colony’

How Sioux Falls became a controversial Gilded Age “Mecca for the mismated.”
by April White via Atlas Obscura on June 14, 2022
Harvey Milk (left) at Gay Pride, San Jose, California 1978.

Harvey Milk’s Gay Freedom Day Speech

Five months before his assassination in 1978, Harvey Milk called on the president of the United States to defend the rights of gay and lesbian Americans.
by Liz Tracey, Harvey Milk via JSTOR Daily on June 13, 2022

“A Very Curious Religious Game”: Spiritual Maps and Material Culture in Early America

The Quaker spiritual journey, often invisible due to its silent, humble and individual nature, is illustrated in this map.
by Janet Moore Lindman via Commonplace on June 7, 2022
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony with backdrop of abortion protest posters

What Did the Suffragists Really Think About Abortion?

Contrary to contemporary claims, Susan B. Anthony and her peers rarely discussed abortion, which only emerged as a key political issue in the 1960s.
by Treva B. Lindsey via Smithsonian on May 26, 2022
Statue of Jefferson in front of white columns of building facade

The Decline of Church-State Separation

The author of new book explains the fraught and turbulent relationship between religion and government in the U.S.
by Steven Green, Eric C. Miller via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on April 26, 2022
Gov. Ron DeSantis shows an image from the children's book "Call Me Max" by transgender author Kyle Lukoff before signing the Parental Rights in Education bill in Shady Hills, Fla. on March 28.

How Anita Bryant Helped Spawn Florida's LGBTQ Culture War

Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, is part of a long legacy of anti-gay rhetoric and legislation in the state.
by Jillian Eugenios via NBC News on April 13, 2022
Image of Martin Luther King Jr. within a jail cell.

What Makes Laws Unjust

King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.
by Randall Kennedy via Boston Review on April 11, 2022
An image of red slave shackles.

Tracing the Ancestry of the Earliest Enslaved Ndongo People

A story born in blood.
by Clyde W. Ford via Literary Hub on April 8, 2022
Winslow Homer painting "The Gulf Stream," depicting a Black man in a boat with no sail, surrounded by sharks.

The Melville of American Painting

In a new exhibit, Winslow Homer, once seen as the oracle of the nation’s innocence, is recast as a poet of conflict.
by Susan Tallman via The Atlantic on April 6, 2022
Illustration of Nation of Islam members holding hands with Muslims from the Middle East over globe.

The Nation of Islam's Role in U.S. Prisons

The Nation of Islam is controversial. Its practical purposes for incarcerated people transcend both politics and religion.
by Olivia Heffernan via JSTOR Daily on March 22, 2022
MLK waving at March on Washington

"I Have A Dream": Annotated

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s iconic speech, annotated with relevant scholarship on the literary, political, and religious roots of his words.
by Martin Luther King Jr. via JSTOR Daily on February 28, 2022
American Catholic book cover

Americanism and the ‘Roman’ Catholic

Daniel James Sundahl reviews D. G. Hart’s American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War.
by Daniel James Sundahl via The Russell Kirk Center on February 27, 2022
Outdoor funeral service area

Piecing Together The Green Burial Movement

Green burials — the long-ago practice of laying loved ones to rest in biodegradable wooden caskets or shrouds, without embalming — are gaining in popularity.
by Olivia Milloway via The Bitter Southerner on February 8, 2022
Man playing drum

Music and Spirit in the African Diaspora

The musical traditions found in contemporary Black U.S. and Caribbean Christian worship originated hundreds of years ago, continents away.
by Livia Gershon, Teresa L. Reed via JSTOR Daily on February 4, 2022
Portrait of Dorothy Day in black and white in 1916

‘Don’t Call Me a Saint’

In her lifetime, Dorothy Day rejected canonization for herself. Now revived, this bad idea would only diminish the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
by Garry Wills via New York Review of Books on January 26, 2022
"Bad Faith Race and the Rise of the Religious Right" book cover, featuring a photo of politicians speaking to a crowd.

That New Old-Time Religion

“They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.”
by L. Benjamin Rolsky via Los Angeles Review of Books on November 30, 2021
People sitting on a hill overlooking a harbor

How We Became Weekly

The week is the most artificial and recent of our time counts yet it’s impossible to imagine our shared lives without it.
by David Hinkin via Aeon on November 30, 2021
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