Civil War

Interview with leader of new evangelical alliance describes his escape from Khartoum and the pressure to pick a side.

Two new books probe the mysteries of Abraham Lincoln’s public and private relationship to religion.

Mark Noll surveys the effects of an “independence-first” approach to Scripture.

As in the past, one can learn about our nation’s political divisions by looking at our religious ones.

The architect of a foiled 19th-century slave revolt justified violence in terms he hoped Americans would understand.

These white evangelicals want to make the former capital of the Confederacy into the capital of racial reconciliation.

The Civil War pitted principles against community. A Christian vision ties them together again.

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

Political division finds fuel in sin that separates us from each other. Only peacemakers win the title “children of God.”

Jocelyne Khoueiry inspired over 1,500 Christian women to enlist during the civil war, then shifted her efforts from arms to knees.