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Daniel K. Williams
Daniel K. Williams teaches American history at Ashland University and is the author of several books on Christianity and politics in the United States, including The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship and Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. He lives in Ashland, Ohio, with his wife Nadya (also a CT contributor) and their two children.
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The Evangelicalism of Jimmy Carter
The former president, who turns 100 on Tuesday, was elected while serving as a Southern Baptist deacon. But he was never fully welcomed by white evangelicals as one of our own.
The Evangelical Diploma Divide
How a new class division burst into American evangelicalism—and what it means for church unity.
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Modern Secularism Makes No Sense Without Christianity
A new book argues that early Protestant thinking helped fuel an anti-supernatural worldview. But that worldview retains more Protestantism than it cares to admit.
How Evangelicals Became a Voting Bloc
Evangelical voters’ focus on policy over character came much earlier than you think.
The Half-Truths We’ve Told About MLK
In the ’60s, white evangelicals condemned Martin Luther King Jr. In the ’80s, we lauded a convenient, hagiographic version of his life. How should we remember him now?
A Puritan’s Guide to Quieting Our ‘Inner Atheist’
Even the most spiritual people can struggle with doubts about God. But how do they overcome them?
Evangelicals’ Theology of the Church Must Be Born Again
The ‘Great Dechurching’ is an opportunity for our tradition to rediscover a more enduring ecclesiology.
Can You Be Born Again Without ‘Feeling’ It?
Like Francis Wayland, some of us may doubt our religious conversion experience.
‘Christian America’ Isn’t Dying. It’s Dividing.
The greatest threat to the church today isn’t apostasy—it’s regionalism.
Unitarians and Episcopalians Created American Christmas
But evangelicals have rightly made it more gospel centered.