History

New Testament scholar Garrick V. Allen explains the long history of paratext.

Bruce Gordon shows how believers in every era have experienced their sacred book through all the human senses.

American stadiums have always played host both to major sports and to larger social aspirations.

Reckoning with a half-century of American evangelicals’ pursuit of a “seat at the table.”

Christians in America enjoy the right and duty to educate our children as conscience dictates, thanks to a balanced legal tradition.

The candidate’s “unburdened by what has been” and “coconut tree” lines push her party toward a troubling partisan divide over the past itself.

Most ministers were silent about Watergate. Why was one evangelical pastor different?

Character matters more than talking points in choosing a leader. And it’s hard to know what questions to ask about it.

A new book steers between full condemnation and “men of their time” dodges.

This Juneteenth, the life of unsung civil rights hero Fred Shuttlesworth should be a clarion call to the biblical activism we still need to advance racial justice in America.