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How a Great Pro-Life Hope Disappointed His Allies

As surgeon general under Ronald Reagan, C. Everett Koop traveled in evangelical circles. But the partnership was always uneasy.

Our Perennial Political Temptation

Mark Caleb Smith and Emma Blakemore

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

How Evangelicals Became a Voting Bloc

Evangelical voters’ focus on policy over character came much earlier than you think.

Politicians, You Keep Saying ‘City on A Hill’

But it doesn’t mean what you think it means.

Wire Story

Died: Former NAE President Arthur Gay, Who Introduced Reagan’s ‘Evil Empire’ Speech

Adelle M. Banks - Religion News Service

The longtime Illinois pastor led the National Association of Evangelicals and World Relief around the fall of the Soviet Union.

From the Archives: Mikhail Gorbachev and Christianity

The editors

A selection of articles on the late leader’s global legacy.

Reagan, Clinton, Bush, and Obama All Cited One Puritan Sermon to Explain America

Interview by Ryan Hoselton

How did a forgotten colonial text become a national origin story?

Review

The Most Famous Metaphor of American Exceptionalism Is a Warning, Not a Boast

Robert Tracy McKenzie

John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill” language wasn’t meant to puff up his hearers with pride but to send a chill down their spines.

The Embattled Career of Dr. Koop

Despite political pressures, the surgeon general was out to fight disease, not people.

Ronald Reagan’s Mission Trip to Moscow

Paul Kengor

At the close of the Cold War, the American president embarked on a personal crusade to promote religious liberty in the U.S.S.R.

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