Founding Fathers

The “cheerful prudery” of Ned Flanders has given way to vulgarity, misogyny, and partisanship. What does this mean for our witness?

Christians can love America—with all of its flaws and failures—precisely because we don’t expect it to be the kingdom of God.

As American evangelicals head to the polls, they disagree about the meaning of the contested phrase.

A new biography maps out the moral tensions that tormented his mind and tainted his legacy.

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

The third president’s attempts to revise Scripture offer a warning about our own tendency to “edit” the truth.

A historian’s “intentionally provocative” account of religious liberty in America leaves too little room for claims of conscientious dissent.

Three books try to make sense of this political ideology.

Steven Waldman’s book helps “complainers” like me regain a sense of perspective.

Once a people view themselves as their own highest authority, whatever they most value becomes their god. And that god will rule their nation.