Civil Rights Movement

American Christians can illuminate our country’s politics—if we engage with moral imagination, neighborliness, boldness, and humility.

This Juneteenth, the life of unsung civil rights hero Fred Shuttlesworth should be a clarion call to the biblical activism we still need to advance racial justice in America.

Her final work was continually revised but never finished. Can we know what she was aiming to achieve?

The prominent pastor’s claim that Martin Luther King Jr. was “not a Christian” is not only ahistorical. It misses God’s heart for justice.

In 1963, Birmingham was the epicenter of racial injustice—until a movement of pastors, churches, and children disrupted the hate. Journalist Paul Kix says it’s a story he was destined to tell.

From musical theater to seminary classroom, a woman who calls herself “an unlikely theologian” is making space for single women, children, and others who aren’t always visible to the church.

In the ’60s, white evangelicals condemned Martin Luther King Jr. In the ’80s, we lauded a convenient, hagiographic version of his life. How should we remember him now?

How a contested alien abduction claim from the 1960s helps explain modern cynicism toward credentialed experts and organizations.

Responses to our September issue.

How we can better engage with the famous March on Washington speech.