One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His ...

Discover how a courageous psychologist boldly challenged the long-standing anti-religious bias in psychology, arguing for the ...

Friar Bartholomew Hutcherson argues that the new Pope Leo XIV will offer the Catholic Church the best American Catholicism has to offer.

The radical societal changes that swept through America in the second half of the 20th century brought new challenges for existing cultural institutions and government agencies.

Martin E. Marty, the “ dean of American church historians,” died on February 25 at age 97. Born and reared in the village of West Point, Nebraska—Willa Cather country, he said—he would go ...

IDEAS Does American democracy need more religion? Faith is more than a private matter. It might be important for our republic too.

The mid-20th century cultural tastes of American Jews are explored in three new books: “Postwar Stories” by Rachel Gordan, “Write Like a Man” by Ronnie Grinberg and “Carrying a Big ...