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From Carter to Comey, the legacy of "Washington's Favorite Theologian" endures.

God may or may not have played a role in the defeat of the Spanish Armada. What mattered is that everyone at the time thought he did.

We can’t keep everyone happy, and it’s torture to try

Bestsellers of liberal American religion.

A satirical take on Christian gender roles.

Sometimes, women need to set aside false selflessness.

Series shows why we need to know our U.S. church history.

Does it matter that there might soon be no Protestants on the Supreme Court?

Diverse figures from church history offer surprisingly similar guidance for this core Christian practice.

Limiting family size in early America.

While warning of a 'perversion of the gospel,' the radio commentator mangles recent American religious history.

All sides of a recent textbook battle are right, and wrong, about religion in American history.

Nothing has ever been easy for this once-lush island nation.

And other lessons from my first semester teaching church history.

In November 1739, Jonathan Edwards preached not freedom from want, but freedom from demons.

Last weekend, white and black Methodist congregations in Philadelphia worshiped together for the first time in more than 200 years.

Diverse figures from church history offer surprisingly similar guidance for this core Christian practice.

The century-old observance is scarcely observed, but its concerns remain current.