Call to arms
Conventional wisdom holds that a select group of World War I poets and writers, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen among them,...
A 'chosen people'
Without the myths that form its spiritual “glue” the United States would disintegrate, argues historian Richard Hughes....
Secular Steeples, by Conrad Ostwalt
More than half a century ago Dietrich Bonhoeffer spoke of a coming "postreligious" era....
Killer ‘saints’
The history of the American heartland sometimes appears as little more than a bloody farrago of killing which, in the God-soaked vocabulary of the perpetrators, must be understood not as murder, bu...