evangelicals

Randall Balmer, David Gushee, and Tim Alberta diagnose what’s gone wrong.

In her memoir, Lore Ferguson Wilbert draws connections between her life and the forest‘s understory.

Eliza Griswold profiles a progressive evangelical church that sought to do things differently but fell prey to the usual problems.

Keri Ladner digs into the Moral Majority founder’s archives to show how his fantastical interpretations of world politics seeded the ground for QAnon.

Bradley Onishi brings his scholarship and his personal experience together to analyze where the church went wrong.

George Marsden’s new book returns to the old project of making Jonathan Edwards modern.

Three new books investigate how misinformation shapes evangelicals—and propose better ways to reason together.

Isaac Sharp traces the story of the groups that find themselves outside, pushed there by the conservative White men standing guard.

Two new ones by Susan Hylen and Nijay Gupta offer correctives many churches have not yet internalized.

David Hollinger explores how Protestantism has shaped—and warped—a nation’s intellectual life.

Daniel Hummel shows how deeply dispensation­alism has shaped American religion.

It was mostly politics, argues historian Neall Pogue.

Theologian Richard Mouw calls for a God-chastened love of country. 

Tiffany Brooks offers much more than just another exvangelical anger manual.

Pamela Cooper-White details best practices for difficult conversations that privilege listening, reflexivity, curiosity, and care.

Yes, says Katelyn Beaty, who defines celebrity as “fame’s shinier, slightly obnoxious cousin.”

Charles Marsh writes beautifully about the anxiety instilled by his childhood faith—and the therapy it took to overcome it.