White Christian nationalism is widely seen as a partisan movement that only emerged in recent years. But the ideology is as ...

Islam divides the world into two conceptual geographies, Dar Al Islam, house of Islam and Dar Al Harb, house of war. The classical Islamic scholar Abu Hanifa (d. 767 CE) defined Dar al-Islam based on ...

The notion that much of the Bible is myth has long been held by some Protestant theologians, including the U.S.’s Paul Tillich and Germany’s Rudolf Bultmann. But this has rarely been stated flatly by ...

Greek mythology sparked the Renaissance, transforming art from religious instruction to profound explorations of human ...

I heard about this guy who called himself “evangelical,” said he lived a “Bible-centered life,” had a personal relationship with Jesus Christ … and voted for Al Gore over George W. Bush. A confused, ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. When sitting in class, trying to figure out if the guy or girl across the aisle is ...

"Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political ...

This morning, in her address to Liberty University students at the mandatory convocation in the school’s basketball arena, Michele Bachmann did something far more explictly than she has on the ...

Claude Lévi-Strauss, the anthropologist and philosopher, has died. He was 100 years old. He was the son of a portrait painter, the grandson of a rabbi, and the great-grandson of a violinist. He was ...