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Review
American Christianity Is More Than Its Politics
Matthew Avery Sutton’s impressive new history is insightful, helpful, colorful—and incomplete.
Was Abraham Lincoln a Christian?
In his younger years, Lincoln was a skeptic. But as he aged, he turned toward biblical wisdom—and not only when in the public eye.
Tearing Apart ‘The Old Thread-bare Lie’
Black journalist Ida B. Wells exposed Southern lynching.
Review
Apologetics Can Be a Balm—or Bludgeon
A new history of American apologetics from Daniel K. Williams offers careful detail, worthwhile lessons, and an ambitious, sprawling, rollicking narrative.
Why Pro-Life Black Christians Rejected Pro-Life Politics
Black and white Christians in America could have been allies in the fight for life across racial and partisan lines. Post-Dobbs, can we learn from recent history?
The Religious Roots of Hoosier Hysteria
Indiana’s storied basketball tradition was built on equality and faith—but only for some.
The Country We Could Have Had
An America without immigrants is a lesser America.
Setting Our Scopes on Things Above
A century after the infamous trial, evangelicals can unbundle faith from culture wars and recover a wiser witness.
This Great and Complicated Place
Equity or Illusion: Is Education Really the Great Equalizer?
Our schools reflect deeper societal injustices.
The Broken Promise of ‘40 Acres and a Mule’
In dealing with its Black citizens, America has acted not with the faithfulness of God but with the deceit of Laban.