Early Americans bore energetic witness to bodily suffering. What can their example teach believers today?

Our “culture of transience” has far-reaching social and economic costs—and some that are harder to quantify.

How a sober look at failed projects of nationalism can help Christians envision a better way.

A healthy love of country looks backward and forward, recognizes triumphs and failures, and flows from the head and the heart alike.

Why the “rhetoric of rising” is incompatible with Christian views of grace and the common good.

Two new books approvingly chart the legal and cultural path to Obergefell v. Hodges. What can the losing side learn about battles lost, and battles still to come?

How a passage in John’s gospel transformed my perspective on God and suffering.

Michael Bird offers a trusty primer on reading and understanding God’s Word.

How “redemptive entrepreneurship” can multiply the impact of cash-strapped ministries.

Chosen by Davis Bunn, bestselling author and writer in residence at Regent’s Park College, Oxford University.

Chosen by Jennifer Woodruff Tait, editor of “Christian History” magazine and author of “Christian History in Seven Sentences.”

Publishers tried for years to get evangelical readers to care. Then one succeeded.

Mustafa Akyol explains why his new book explores the history of apostasy laws, the sayings of Muhammad, and the prospects for greater pluralism in the Islamic world.

What an attention-starved son learned while reconstructing the life of his distant dad.

They might embrace their marginal status, but they don’t plan on staying marginal forever.

In his latest book, the “Color of Compromise” author turns from the lessons of history to the proper Christian response.

Why women of color are essential to today’s church-planting movements.

An attempt to examine the church’s history through its architecture suffers from narrow understandings of “church” and “history” alike.

For 100th anniversary, the Museum of the Bible restored the “Book of Redemption.”