The complex story of race and religion in the American South
Paul Harvey's history shows how things could have gone very differently.
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Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
Did the exodus really happen?
A new book challenges the scholarly consensus about one of the Hebrew Bible's central stories.
Is forbearance amid disagreement a Christian virtue?
We should forebear one another—not to ensure church unity, but because God forebears us.
Dar Williams has hope for America's small towns
The folk singer has observed what brings neighbors together in communities where she performs.
What I found when I looked up today’s date in four daily devotional books
The many lives of Adam and Eve
Stephen Greenblatt weaves an impressive—but incomplete—tapestry of interpretations of the story of the Fall.
Was the 1928 Paris Peace Pact really a failure?
It didn't eliminate war. Still, it transformed international relations.
The many perspectives of American evangelicalism
A new book of essays shows that evangelicals aren't all the same culturally or politically. So what's holding them together?
Is Trump a deviation from American values or an expression of them?
E. J. Dionne, Norman Ornstein, and Thomas Mann see this presidency as a distortion of the country's character. But what if it's the opposite?
The vocation of being a stranger
As a mother and a woman of color, I read Camille Dungy's book as a personal roadmap.
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