Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As we look at another New Year’s Day, it’s a good time to reflect on a song that unites rather than divides us: the Rev. John ...

What inspired you to write Strangers Below: Primitive Baptists and American Culture? I heard the Primitives before I knew anything about them. It was their singing. There was a keening voice begging ...

What are the status and prospects of Calvinism in the United States 400 years after the definitive edition of the Institutes of the Christian Religion? They are not good. In fact, they are very bad.

As we look at another New Year’s Day, it’s a good time to reflect on a song that unites rather than divides us: the Rev. John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace.” The hymn first appeared in Newton’s New ...