Essay

Football and the Political Act of Prayer

In football, prayer is—and has always been—political.

By Paul Putz

Democrats and Republicans have different conceptions of what religious freedom means and what it demands.

By Jacob Lupfer

The Christian debate over globalism and nationalism is nothing new.

By Gene Zubovich

Many Southern Baptists in the 1970s supported abortion rights and gender equality. What happened?

By Marie Griffith

They have become unmoored from any deep theological tradition regarding immigration. They need to develop a systematic response to state injustices.

By Arlene Sanchez-Walsh and Lloyd Barba

In this unprecedented cultural moment, evangelical women are speaking out.

By Sara Moslener

This famously American faith makes an unprecedented effort to “reach out to the whole world.”

By Max Perry Mueller

The racialization of Islam has obscured both the diversity of Muslim America, and the tensions that accompany that diversity.

By Yasmine Flodin-Ali

Fifty years later, the legacies of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy still loom large.

By Robert Greene II

Elder Michaux, a popular black evangelist, aided the bureau’s campaign to destroy King’s reputation.

By Lerone A. Martin