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Matthew CaponeCultureRacial ReconciliationHistory

The Christian Achievement of Martin Luther King Jr.

King remained tethered to a Christian understanding of non-violence and human dignity. This produced a distinctively Christian political strategy.

Daniel K. WilliamsCultureHistory

From Social Gospel to Contraception

The early 20th century saw dramatic transformations in how Mainline Protestantism thought about sexual ethics.

Susannah Black RobertsHistoryLiterature

The Birth of Comedy

The world that vitalists nostalgic for the Bronze Age wish to recover was waiting for something: longing for something more than a brief, passing glory.

Jake MeadorHistoryChurch

The American Church in the Fourth Republic

The problems facing the church at the dawn of America's fourth republic are unlike those that have confronted her at earlier moments in American history.

Ana SiljakFeaturedHistoryCulture Warhealth

Purity Culture - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood.” (Matthew 27:24) Our contemporary culture has […]

Miles SmithHistoryCurrent Politics

Futility

The Confederacy's attempt to preserve a race-based caste system was futile. So why are sun belt evangelicals trying to revive hateful old ideologies?

Jake MeadorHistoryCulture War

Against Syncretism, For Christians Building Like Christians

We can be loudly and effectively opposed to syncretism without hollowing out ordinary Christian vocations as a means of neighborly love.

Jake MeadorHistoryCurrent Politics

The False Promise of Disenchantment

The promise and hope that came with early forms of disenchantment have given way to a sense of despair.

Paul FineHistoryCurrent Politics

The “New” Christian Nationalism

A survey of post-war American Christian nationalism suggests that that era's cultural Christianity quickly gave way to vague spiritual-not-religiousism.

Steven WedgeworthHistoryLiteratureCurrent Politics

Beware the Great Quote

That great quote you want to put to work on social media might not mean what you think it means.

Ryan RagozineTheologyHistoryPhilosophy

Meet a Forgotten Giant of 20th Century Theology

The theology of Pannenberg provides an interesting alternative in 20th century theology to the dominance of Karl Barth.

Jake MeadorHistoryCurrent Politics

Misreading Hamilton and 'Hamilton'

Our striver class lacks outlets and so slides toward decadence. The solution will be, at least in part, a moral awakening, a remembering of grace.