Education
Interview
How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics: An Interview with R. Marie Griffith
In her new book, “Moral Combat,” Griffith offers a sweeping history of how American Christians have debated sex over the last century.
By The Editors
Report
Fifty Years Later, Religious Progressives Launch a New Poor People’s Campaign
Can they articulate an American liberation theology for the Trump era?
By Michael Schulson
Essay
Can Scripture “Speak for Itself”? A Look Inside the Museum of the Bible
A biblical scholar visits Washington’s newest museum, which is backed by the evangelical family behind Hobby Lobby.
By Jill Hicks-Keeton
Interview
Investigating the Hobby Lobby Family: An Interview with Candida Moss and Joel S. Baden
As the Museum of the Bible opens in Washington, the authors talk about the family behind it and what they uncovered in their new book, “Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby.”
By Gordon Haber
Report
Confederate Monuments and the Power of Absence
A contemporary debate on iconoclasm
By Menachem Wecker
Interview
India in the American Imagination: An Interview with Michael J. Altman
The subcontinent stood for more than two centuries as a screen onto which white Western Protestants projected their fantasies.
By Eric C. Miller
Editor’s Note
White Christians Must Condemn White Supremacy
To be silent or to engage in false equivalencies is to be complicit in the growth of this noxious fascism.
By Marie Griffith
Review
“Evangelical” Is Not a Political Term
Yet the temptation for those writing about evangelicals today is to allow the political part—like the fact that 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump—to stand in for the whole.
By Neil J. Young
Report
Trinity Lutheran: The Church-State Case Looms at the Supreme Court
The ruling could have powerful implications for the separation of church and state and the funding of religious schools.
By Stephanie Russell-Kraft
Report
The Book of Mormon Gets the Literary Treatment
At long last, the American Scripture is becoming literature.
By Grant Shreve