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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.
by Alberto Toscano via Boston Review on June 29, 2021
Lightning bolt above a city at night.

The Human Nature of Disaster

A storm is never just wind or rain. Our natural problems are social problems. The solutions to them must be social, too.
by Maia Silber via Public Books on March 26, 2021
A man standing at a crossroads holding an American flag.

The Wasting of the Evangelical Mind

The peculiarities of how American Christianity took shape help explain believers’ vulnerability to conspiratorial thinking and misinformation.
by Michael Luo via The New Yorker on March 4, 2021

QAnon and the Satanic Panics of Yesteryear

What they can teach us about what to expect.
by Daniel N. Gullotta via The Bulwark on February 25, 2021
The book cover for "They Knew They Were Pilgrims."

A History of the Pilgrims That Neither Idolizes Nor Demonizes Them

Historian John Turner tells the story of Plymouth Colony with nuance and care.
by Grant Wacker via The Christian Century on January 14, 2021
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.
by Jerry Taylor via Christianity Today on September 2, 2020
A painting depicting pilgrims arriving in the New World.

Exodus: Vaera

For Freud, “chosenness” was a psychopathological fantasy in need of explanation.
by Len Gutkin via Jewish Currents on April 30, 2020
Drawing of earth encircled with celestial rings

The Protestant Astrology of Early American Almanacs

The wildly popular books helped people understand farming and health through the movement of the planets, in a way compatible with Protestantism.
by T. J. Tomlin, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on March 15, 2020
Statue of Thomas Jefferson and an American flag.
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Jefferson's Other Legacy: Religious Liberty

Religious bigotry is only less pressing today than racial bigotry because of progress Jefferson helped bring about.
by Cameron Addis via HNN on January 10, 2020
Enslaved people being baptized.

'Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World'

A Q&A with author Katharine Gerbner about "Protestant Supremacy."
by Katharine Gerbner, Casey Schmitt via The Junto on April 19, 2019

Evangelicals and Immigration: A Conflicted History

Before the 1990s, evangelical Christians were busier resettling newly arrived refugees than trying to keep them out.
by Ulrike Elisabeth Stockhausen via Process: A Blog for American History on March 18, 2019

Sexism Has Long Been Part of the Culture of Southern Baptists

While sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention has recently come to light, it's not new.
by Susan M. Shaw via The Conversation on March 6, 2019

Conversion and Race in Colonial Slavery

To convert was not just a matter of belief, but also a claim to power.
by Katharine Gerbner via Social Science Research Council on June 26, 2018
Billy Graham at the pulpit.

American Evangelicalism and the Politics of Whiteness

If white evangelicals are united by anything, it isn't theology.
by Seth Dowland via The Christian Century on June 19, 2018

The Last Temptation

How evangelicals became an anxious minority seeking political protection from a not traditionally religious president.
by Michael Gerson via The Atlantic on March 8, 2018
A painting of George Whitefield preaching to a crowd.

Darkness Falls on the Land of Light

Divisions in society and religion that still exist today resulted from the "Great Awakenings" of the 18th Century.
by Douglas Winiarski via American Heritage on February 1, 2018

Are White Evangelicals Sacrificing The Future In Search Of The Past?

The religious profile of young adults today differs dramatically from that of older Americans.
by Daniel Cox via FiveThirtyEight on January 24, 2018

Why did James Comey Name His Secret Twitter Account ‘Reinhold Niebuhr’?

Niebuhr is a theological hero to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain.
by Michelle Boorstein via Washington Post on October 24, 2017

The Complex Marriage Complex

A descendant of the Oneida Community reflects on the famous 19th century experiment in managing sexual freedom.
by Rita Koganzon via The Hedgehog Review on September 1, 2017

What American Nuns Built

Both the nation and the Church have depended on the energy and expertise of nuns. They’re vanishing. Now what?
by Ruth Graham via Boston Globe on February 24, 2013
Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln's Great Depression

Abraham Lincoln fought clinical depression all his life. But what would today be treated as a "character issue" gave Lincoln the tools to save the nation.
by Joshua Wolf Shenk via The Atlantic on October 1, 2005
A drawing of a church in Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1812.

The Story of Denmark Vesey

Against the backdrop of another conflict over slavery in 1861, Thomas Wentworth Higginson wrote an in-depth narrative of Denmark Vesey's planned slave revolt in Charleston, SC.
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson via The Atlantic on June 1, 1861
A group of U.S. Marines crossing a rice paddy in Vietnam.

‘Commonweal’ and the Vietnam War

In 1964, Commonweal supported the Vietnam War. In 1966, the magazine condemned it in blunt, theological terms. What changed?
by Peter Steinfels via Commonweal on February 22, 2025
Cover of the book "Immigration and Apocalypse"

How End Times Theology Shaped U.S. Immigration Policy

Much of the rhetoric surrounding immigration debates is steeped in the language of Revelation, argues New Testament professor Yii-Jan Lin.
by Brandon Grafius via Sojourners on February 21, 2025

The Late Great Hal Lindsey

The ideas he popularized will continue to shape evangelicalism for generations to come.
by Matthew Avery Sutton via Religion News Service on December 5, 2024
The Geologic Time Spiral showing different periods over millions of years.

Deep Time and the Civil War Dead

The Civil War's vast death toll joined Earth's deep time story, magnifying its meaning as part of God's creative acts across eons.
by Caroline Winterer via Princeton University Press on October 15, 2024
Photo of United States bill, saying "In God We Trust."

The Deep Religious Roots of American Economics

Any attempt to understand the complexities of American economic thought without considering the significant role of religious beliefs is incomplete.
by Benjamin M. Friedman via The MIT Press Reader on September 5, 2024
Yellow amaryllis flower in its bulb.

The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)

Photographs of wild flowers taken by photographers from a Christian utopian community that settled in East Jerusalem at the turn of the 20th century.
by Adam Green, Hunter Dykes via The Public Domain Review on July 24, 2024
Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1857.

The Essential Emerson

The latest biography of the great transcendentalist captures the paradoxes of his Yankee mind.
by Allen Mendenhall via Law & Liberty on June 21, 2024
Demonstrator holding a Christian nationalist sign with a cross painted like the American flag.

The Peril Radicalizing Some Evangelicals Goes Beyond Christian Nationalism

Christian supremacists are plotting the end of America as we know it.
by Matthew D. Taylor via Religion News Service on April 4, 2024
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