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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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Two States Test a New Pro-Life Law
Pro-lifers have just won legislative victories to restrict abortion pills in South Dakota and Mississippi. But will the laws work?
The New Party Politics of Abortion
Some Republicans remain consistently pro-life. But under Trump’s lead, the GOP has become an anti-Roe yet pro-choice coalition.
Review
American Christianity Is More Than Its Politics
Matthew Avery Sutton’s impressive new history is insightful, helpful, colorful—and incomplete.
Analysis
What Can Pro-Lifers Do in Unchurched States?
Pro-life political wins correlate with church attendance rates. So what do you do if most of your neighbors stay home on Sunday morning?
Review
Love Thy Dead-for-200-Years Neighbor
God and Country argues Christians studying the past must be charitable to its flawed inhabitants.
Analysis
This Year, Protections for the Unborn Won’t Come from Washington
The White House and Congress seem uninterested in new pro-life measures. But crisis pregnancy centers will continue their mission, one life at a time.
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?
Review
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.
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.