Civil War

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

Preachers like John Marrant proclaimed the gospel across cultures. But the persistence—and defense—of slavery challenged their ministries.

In dealing with its Black citizens, America has acted not with the faithfulness of God but with the deceit of Laban.

How the intensifying religious visions of North and South erupted into civil war.

Interview with leader of new evangelical alliance describes his escape from Khartoum and the pressure to pick a side.

Two new books probe the mysteries of Abraham Lincoln’s public and private relationship to religion.

Mark Noll surveys the effects of an “independence-first” approach to Scripture.

As in the past, one can learn about our nation’s political divisions by looking at our religious ones.

These white evangelicals want to make the former capital of the Confederacy into the capital of racial reconciliation.

The architect of a foiled 19th-century slave revolt justified violence in terms he hoped Americans would understand.