Christian History

An excerpt from Protestants and Patriots: Presbyterians in the Age of Revolution.

Jared Stacy’s new book correctly identifies a serious problem. But his depiction of evangelicalism is overblown and unreasonable.

Matthew Avery Sutton’s impressive new history is insightful, helpful, colorful—and incomplete.

African American Christians reflect on Rebecca Protten, Vernon Johns, and other thinkers who influenced their faith. 

God and Country argues Christians studying the past must be charitable to its flawed inhabitants.

All is not lost. But Christians must regain our distinctiveness and reclaim our moral clarity.

A new history of American apologetics from Daniel K. Williams offers careful detail, worthwhile lessons, and an ambitious, sprawling, rollicking narrative.

That fallen pastor or troubled tradition was never responsible for the truthfulness of the gospel. That is God’s work, and God never fails us.

Bryan Litfin rescues popular audiences from common myths about the origins of Trinitarian doctrine.

Reformers like Elizabeth Rous Comstock were not animated by conquest, but earnest—and complicated—charity towards Black migrants.