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Essay
The Mormon Church Grapples with its Global Identity and its Legacy on Race
This famously American faith makes an unprecedented effort to “reach out to the whole world.”
By Max Perry Mueller
Essay
What Malcolm X Taught Me About Muslim America
The racialization of Islam has obscured both the diversity of Muslim America, and the tensions that accompany that diversity.
By Yasmine Flodin-Ali
Report
In Jerusalem, a New Embassy Highlights Old Divisions
As violence roiled Gaza 40 miles away, the embassy inauguration seemed like nothing so much as a show—a piece of elaborate political theater.
By Michael Schulson
Review
What’s so American about Christian Zionism?
A review of Samuel Goldman’s new book, “God’s Country: Christian Zionism in America.”
By Dan Hummel
Essay
Misremembering 1968
Fifty years later, the legacies of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy still loom large.
By Robert Greene II
Interview
How Do Evangelical Colleges Keep the Faith?
Adam Laats discusses his new book, “Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education.”
By Eric C. Miller
Review
The Persistent Christian Essence of “A Wrinkle in Time”
With or without the book’s biblical quotations, the story’s theology is embedded in the plot.
By Donald Hettinga
Essay
New Documents Reveal How the FBI Deployed a Televangelist to Discredit Martin Luther King
Elder Michaux, a popular black evangelist, aided the bureau’s campaign to destroy King’s reputation.
By Lerone A. Martin
Report
Among the Ruins of a Polygamous Sect, Short Creek Residents Rebuild Their Town
Exiles return in the wake of FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs’ imprisonment.
By Barak Wright
Excerpt
The Revolutionary Roots of America’s Religious Nationalism
Benjamin E. Park’s new book, “American Nationalisms,” explores religion and politics in the Age of Revolutions.
By Benjamin E. Park