The British historian William Reginald (Reg) Ward, who died on October 2 of last year, accomplished more in his retirement than most scholars accomplish in their entire careers. We shared in a special ...

The revival at Asbury University in Kentucky remains a head-scratcher for Christian insiders and agnostic outsiders alike. Indeed, the Asbury revival has even mystified Protestants who stress a ...

Every few years, the majority of the U.S. population again has to reckon with Christian evangelicalism. Whether it’s an election cycle or an issue of equality — for example, gay marriage or, more ...

Well into The Age of Evangelicalism, when charting the 1990s, Steven Miller attributes the success of the "emerging church" to its postmodern fusion of a "prophet's moral gravitas with the hipster's ...

Part I. How big businessmen shaped conservative evangelicalism. Fundamentalist fronts: Herbert J. Taylor, businessmen, and the "revival" of conservative evangelicalism -- Corporate convictions: Billy ...

What made the Great Awakening great? / Harry S. Stout -- The evangelical encounter with the Enlightenment / Catherine A. Brekus -- Disestablishment as American Sisyphus / Jon Butler -- Antebellum ...

OAK PARK, Ill. (RNS) — A conference about the future of the nation’s largest religious tradition began with a bit of honesty. “Nobody knows exactly what an evangelical is,” said Joel Lawrence, ...

I could hear the piano playing and people singing—especially the majority-male voices that were louder and carried farther than the female ones. As a newly employed assistant professor of religion, I ...

What more can we say about evangelicalism? This is the perennial question for religious scholars of the past decade. While the answer may very well be “not much,” evangelicals continue to give ...

Just as contemporary Christian music has been critical in disseminating conservative Christian ideals, Nashville is a key exporter of contemporary Christian music. The story of contemporary Christian ...