Baptism in Blood
The Civil War and the creation of an American civil religion
Harry S. Stout

The Wisest Radical of Them All
Two Views of Lincoln
Richard Carwardine

Telling Lincoln
Grant Wacker

Letters

The Groves of Academe
Salt, Light,and Affirmative Action
Robert B. Sloan Jr.

Books & Culture's Book of the Week: Getting Beyond Victimology
A provocative collection of essays for the black silent majority.
Preston Jones

Mythical Proportions
America is not so generous, free, and innocent as it imagines itself.
Myths America Lives By, reviewed by Greg Taylor

Racially Diverse Faith Coalitions Oppose Gay Marriage, Tackle Other Issues
Invigorated by the election, African-American and Hispanic leaders are reaching out on a range of political fronts.
By Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service

Weblog: Anglicans, Blasphemy, and the BoSox
A ridiculously comprehensive roundup of religion news so far this week.
Compiled by Rob Moll and Ted Olsen

A Preaching Woman
The remarkable story of a former slave sheds light on the origins of African American Christianity.
Jonathon Kahn

You Have the Right to Be Rich
But you have to earn it.
Patton Dodd

Battling Bigotry
Widow seeks to stem growing tide of hate crimes
Bob Smietana

Black Christianity Before the Civil War: Christian History Timeline
A Christian History timeline
A. G. Miller

You Must Not Kneel Here
One April Sunday, Richard and fellow black Methodists decided they wouldn't stand for prejudice anymore.
Will Gravely

Black Christianity Before the Civil War: A Gallery - The Fruit of Freedom
When given even a limited opportunity to grow, these African-American Christians blossomed.
Mark Sidwell

Weblog: Two Iraqi Churches Bombed
Plus: Mr. Bean opposes British religious hate-crime bill, religious summit opens in Indonesia, Vatican condemns 'Christianophobia', Christmas dilemma, praying for the home team, and other articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll

Weblog: Scalia Says State Should Not Be Neutral to Religion
Plus: Flying Anglican bishops, Kristof at it again, clergy in Canada turn to the union, the Air Force and Christianity, Thanksgiving ministry, and more articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll

Weblog: Are Mainline Churches Anti-Semitic?
Plus: Former Bishop indicted on rape charges, Iraq's Christians fight for survival, priests duke it out at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and more articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll

Weblog: What Does an Anglican 'Gay Wedding' Mean for the Church?
Zambia's new veep is a televangelist, the new Christian theme parks, singing about God at graduation, and other articles from online media around the world
Ted Olsen

Weblog: What Does the First Anglican 'Gay Wedding' Mean for the Church?
Zambia's new veep is a televangelist, the new Christian theme parks, singing about God at graduation, and other articles from online media around the world
Ted Olsen

Weblog: Is Eric Rudolph a Christian Terrorist?
Presbyterians keep ban on gay ordination, Newsweek examines fetal rights, Ten Commandments display gets federal court approval, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Ted Olsen

7 Habits of Racially Mixed Churches
How to achieve ethnic diversity—and die (to self) trying.
Reviewed by Douglas R. Sharp

Bill Cosby Was (Mostly) Right
But he overlooks the redemptive role of the church.
By Stan Guthrie

Weblog: Prayer Breakfast Feedback
Also: 60 Minutes' apparent cluelessness on evangelicals. Did Kurt Warner fumble comments on faith vs. football? And other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Railroads and Civil Rights
Race and labor aboard the iron horse
David Chappell

Weblog: How Integrated is Your Church?
Plus: The power of small groups, the Bible goes back to school, and other stories from newspapers around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 6/5/00

In Search of a Multicultural Bottom Line
Chris Rice

Weblog: How Integrated is Your Church?
Plus: The power of small groups, the Bible goes back to school, and other stories from newspapers around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 6/5/00

The Healing Music of Ladysmith Black Mambazo

In Search of a Multicultural Bottom Line
Chris Rice

For Everything There Is a Season
Nostalgia for nature's seasons in a climate-controlled world.
by Cindy Crosby

Talk of the Town
Questions for postmodern Christians
Julia Vitullo-Martin

Making a Difference, and Other Illusions
Christy Lambertson

The Revolution Begins in the Pews
Trotsky and St. Benedict
Eugene McCarraher

Senate Showdown
Activists say fight against gay marriage has only just begun.
By John W. Kennedy

Weblog: State of Emergency Declared in Nigeria
Plus: Billy Graham suffers serious pelvic fracture, Hezbollah uses The Passion, Sudan blocks aid, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Life after 'Mac'
"Promise Keepers names new leader, looks ahead"
Stan Guthrie

CHURCH IN ACTION: Close Encounters Across Cultures
What would happen if you just stayed with a group of kids no matter what?
Dale Buss

Churches, Charity, and Civil Society
The debate over faith-based social services.
By Joseph Loconte

7 Habits of Racially Mixed Churches
How to achieve ethnic diversity—and die (to self) trying.
Reviewed by Douglas R. Sharp

Affectionate Patriarchs
In the popular imagination, conservative evangelical fathers are power-abusing authoritarians. A new study says otherwise.
An interview with W. Bradford Wilcox

Christian History Corner: One Nation Under Secularism
France's peculiar aversion to public religiosity is rooted in a sordid history of sectarian violence.
By Collin Hansen

The Groves of Academe
Salt, Light,and Affirmative Action
Robert B. Sloan Jr.

Books & Culture's Book of the Week: Terrorists on Trial
How the nation responded to an earlier attack
Preston Jones

Weblog: Budget Bill Includes Protection for Prolifers
Plus: Religion hate crime statistics, and other stories from online sources from around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Christian History Corner: Is Speaking Truth a Hate Crime?
Hate laws making their way through U.S. and British governments highlight the need for peaceful yet critical Christian witness. A 12th-century abbot leads the way.
By Steven Gertz

Weblog: Why Kerry Is Sincere When He Says He Believes Life Begins at Conception
Plus: AmeriCorps loses suit on Catholic school placements, U.K. considers new religious hate law, Portland's Catholic archdiocese declares bankruptcy, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

News Wraps
"Deaths, promotions, and other tidbits from the religion world."

Weblog: Should Christians Be Banned from the Military?
"The Pope's 25 years, the antireligious left, and many other stories from online sources around the world"
Ted Olsen

Battling Bigotry
Widow seeks to stem growing tide of hate crimes
Bob Smietana

Racially Diverse Faith Coalitions Oppose Gay Marriage, Tackle Other Issues
Invigorated by the election, African-American and Hispanic leaders are reaching out on a range of political fronts.
By Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service

Good News from the Hispanic Church
The community-serving activities of Hispanic Protestant churches.
by Amy L. Sherman

El Espiritu Santo
Exploring Latino Pentecostalism.
By Douglas Jacobsen

New York's New Hope
From inner-city gardens, to fine-art exhibitions, to political activism, street-smart churches are changing the culture of America's largest and most dynamic city.
By Tony Carnes

Good News from the Hispanic Church
The community-serving activities of Hispanic Protestant churches.
by Amy L. Sherman

The Not-So-Dismal Science
Using literature to enliven economics.
by Andrew P. Morriss

The Truth About the Catholic Church and Slavery
The problem wasn't that the leadership was silent. It was that almost nobody listened.
Rodney Stark

Minorities Accuse Council of Off-Road Theology
Critics force the Latin American Council of Churches to withdraw its Theology on the Road mission document
Paul Jeffrey

Out of the Ashes
In a land of volcanoes, persistent missionary efforts finally yield fruit.
By John W. Kennedy in Riobamba

Original Sin
Slavery and the biblical curse of Ham.
Laura L. Mitchell

Letters
"Is there any doubt that the God of Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Moses is indeed the God of the Muslim, the Jew, and the Christian?"

Still Somebody
"Despite an embarrassing scandal and widespread irritation with his methods, Jesse Jackson continues to be an influential voice in the church. Should evangelicals listen?"
Edward Gilbreath

Hopeful Pessimism
The lessons of the civil rights movement turn out to be quite alien to liberal pieties.
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

The Sage of Walden Pond
I should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom I knew as well.
by Lauren F. Winner

Weblog: Is Suicide Better than Life Imprisonment?
Plus: Ministry support leads to NCAA investigation, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

The Lincoln Supremacy
John Wilkes Booth assassinated the president. Democracy proved harder to kill.
by Allen C. Guelzo

The Lonely Emancipator
Lincoln's legal prudence in ending the peculiar institution.
by Lucas E. Morel

Books & Culture's Book of the Week: Terrorists on Trial
How the nation responded to an earlier attack
Preston Jones

New Methodist Leader Will Focus on the Family
General Secretary of the World Methodist Council wants to promote unified church identity.
Chris Herlinger

Mandela De Klerk and Tutu Join to Fight AIDS
South Africa's men of peace call for end of silence and stigmatization.
By Alex Duval Smith in Johannesburg

Mandela's Miracle
Special Section: White/Other
Joel Carpenter

Mythical Proportions
America is not so generous, free, and innocent as it imagines itself.
Myths America Lives By, reviewed by Greg Taylor

When God Calls a Leader
James Earl Massey

NEWS: Churches to Aid Strapped NAACP

Mythical Proportions
America is not so generous, free, and innocent as it imagines itself.
Myths America Lives By, reviewed by Greg Taylor

Autumn Books
Some that stand out in this season's plenty.
By John Wilson

LDS and DNA
Book challenges Native American link to ancient Israel.
By John W. Kennedy

Operation Human Rights
How evangelicals got outside their comfort zone to help the oppressed overseas.
By David Neff

The Nightmare of North Korea
One man's story of brutality, courage, love, and freedom.
By Kang Hyeok

Good News for the Lost, Imprisoned, Abducted, and Enslaved
Lawyers and investigators at the International Justice Mission have learned that sharing the gospel means going into the heart of darkness.
Wendy Murray Zoba

Jesus and the Religions
A new paradigm for Christian engagement?
by Gerald R. McDermott

Weblog: Federal Judge Says City Shouldn't Have Banned 'Jesus Is Alive' Sign
"Stolen Jesuses, changes at Bibleman HQ, and many more religion stories from online sources around the world"
Ted Olsen

The Tradition Temptation
Why we should still give Scripture pride of place
Roger E. Olson

Christian History Corner: The Amish Come Knocking
UPN's Amish In the City shows us our modern selves in a mirror that is positively medieval.
Chris Armstrong

The Passion and Prejudice
Why I asked the Anti-Defamation League to give Mel Gibson a break.
Michael Medved

Papists!
Saving Catholicism from scorn and irrelevance
Kenneth Tanner

7 Habits of Racially Mixed Churches
How to achieve ethnic diversity—and die (to self) trying.
Reviewed by Douglas R. Sharp

A Laughing Child in Exchange for Sin
What exactly does courage look like in an age of abortion?
Christine A Scheller

"One Lord, One Faith, Many Ethnicities"
How to become a diverse organization and keep your sanity
CT Forum

New York's New Hope
From inner-city gardens, to fine-art exhibitions, to political activism, street-smart churches are changing the culture of America's largest and most dynamic city.
By Tony Carnes

Hope Deferred
Christians are uniquely positioned to further racial equality.
By Stephen L. Carter

"One Lord, One Faith, Many Ethnicities"
How to become a diverse organization and keep your sanity
CT Forum

Bill Cosby Was (Mostly) Right
But he overlooks the redemptive role of the church.
By Stan Guthrie

The Other Terrorists
Philip Jenkins

The Dick Staub Interview: Francis Bok Is Proof that Slavery Still Exists
"After spending 10 years in slavery, the young Sudanese man is telling his story to the world"

Keeping Conflict Healthy
The Leadership Forum

The Ecstatic Heresy
Seeking a superficial unity, some denominational leaders opt for feelings over facts.
By Robert Sanders

Bill Cosby Was (Mostly) Right
But he overlooks the redemptive role of the church.
By Stan Guthrie

Weblog: Long Island Priest Shot During Mass
Eugene Rivers accused of discrimination, the growth of Asian-American churches, and other stories from around the world
Ted Olsen

Shari'ah Law to Decide Fates in Afghanistan
Attack of the 200 Clones coming soon and Eugene Rivers's model could help Cincinnati's racial tensions
Todd Hertz

CT Classic: Separate and Equal
Martin Luther King dreamed of an integrated society. Boston minister Eugene Rivers thinks it was the wrong dream
Wendy Murray Zoba

A Preaching Woman
The remarkable story of a former slave sheds light on the origins of African American Christianity.
Jonathon Kahn

The Unmaking of Liberia
How and why the grand experiment failed
Randal Jelks

Cheated by the Affirming Church
Contrary to what some churches teach, it is homosexuality—and not its suppression—that enslaves people like me.
by Anonymous

The Legend of Bono Vox
Lessons learned in the church of U2.
By Scott Calhoun

Operation Human Rights
How evangelicals got outside their comfort zone to help the oppressed overseas.
By David Neff

Civil Unions: Would a Marriage by any Other Name Be the Same?
Some theologically conservative Christians support civil unions and remain opposed to same-sex marriage.
By Rob Moll

The Revolution Begins in the Pews
Trotsky and St. Benedict
Eugene McCarraher

The Legend of Bono Vox
Lessons learned in the church of U2.
By Scott Calhoun

Weblog: Korean in Iraq Was Killed For His Faith, Say Terrorists
Plus: What's next for the Federal Marriage Amendment, Canada's Bible ban, university relents on mandatory profanity, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Last Things
A history of the afterlife.
Scot McKnight

Weblog: White House Speechwriter Talks About the Bush Code
Plus: U.S. News phones it in on prayer, Indonesian churches attacked, Mormon author disfellowshipped, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Methodist Trial Opens With Arrests, Comparison to Crucifixion
Plus: Foursquare Gospel leaders resign over Ponzi scheme involvement; remembering the Baptists killed in Iraq, and many other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Be Always Ready
Mark Noll

Christian History Corner: Six 'Faith-based' Stories and a Moral
Are Christian social ministries worth fighting for?
Chris Armstrong

Christian History Corner: An 'Ordinary Saint' in Wartime
William Wilberforce saw two long charitable campaigns through, even in war's distracting shadow
Chris Armstrong