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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.
The Unrecognized Great Awakening
Americans talk about Civil Rights as a political movement. But as MLK well knew, it was more than that. It was a revival.
News
Died: President Jimmy Carter, Politician, Peanut Farmer, and Christian
A Baptist from Georgia, he challenged categories with his evangelical witness and progressive politics.
The Bulletin
One-on-One with Frank Bruni
The New York Times columnist talks about his new book on grievance and how to talk across differences.