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Daniel K. Williams teaches American history at Ashland University and is the author of multiple books, including The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship and The Search for a Rational Faith: Reason and Belief in the History of American Christianity.
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Daniel K. Williams teaches American history at Ashland University and is the author of multiple books, including The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship and The Search for a Rational Faith: Reason and Belief in the History of American Christianity.
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Jefferson did not “live out the full meaning of [his] creed.” But he understood that when he declared that “all men are created equal,” he could never be fully comfortable with slavery again. He had set in motion an egalitarian revolution that is still ongoing.
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For together we are Americans; divided we are merely another power doomed to the shipwrecked seas of history. As a Christian, I am thankful that the Divine Will—the Sovereign Hand of God—is at work upholding and sustaining.
Daniel K. WilliamsBook Reviews
Vance says a lot about his longing for virtue, but he doesn’t define virtue as an imitation of Jesus’s life. Instead, Vance’s focus is on developing the qualities that make him a loving husband and father.
Daniel K. WilliamsBook Reviews
Beha's book is a moving account of how a romantic materialist might embrace Christianity, but it is too dismissive of other approaches to belief.
Daniel K. WilliamsBook ReviewsJournalWinter 2026
Charles Murray's engagement with the Christian faith shows the power and the limits of a certain sort of apologetic.
Daniel K. WilliamsBook Reviews
What happens to religious life in America when the Protestant Mainline vanishes? That is the question facing everyone in America today, Christian or not.
Daniel K. WilliamsBook Reviews
For being about common life and social order, Jones's book lives entirely in the realm of theory, rendering it strangely divorced from political reality.
Daniel K. WilliamsBook Reviews
Though it is not as influential as it once was, for a time Colorado Springs was amongst the preeminent cities in American evangelicalism.
Daniel K. WilliamsBook Reviews
Though it is not as influential as it once was, for a time Colorado Springs was amongst the preeminent cities in American evangelicalism.
Daniel K. WilliamsCultureHistory
The early 20th century saw dramatic transformations in how Mainline Protestantism thought about sexual ethics.
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John MacArthur's approach to expository preaching was once uncommon, but through decades of consistency he helped reintroduce it to the American church.
Daniel K. WilliamsBook ReviewsJournalSpring 2025
The concept of charisma offers a striking new way of thinking about the relationship between religion and politics in the United States.
