“Building a Wall”: Church and State in America

When Jefferson designed the University of Virginia’s central Rotunda, he set out to build a temple to the book, a stunning rebuke to the Christian churches that anchored every other college of his day. But Jefferson’s secular utopia didn’t pan out exactly as he planned.

Biblical scholars don’t like to get their hands dirty in the messy world of politics. But Frances Flannery and Rodney Werline have found a dozen brave enough to fact-check politicians on their uses of the Bible.

Evangelical America is changing. Sean Connable tracks online masses and hologram preachers to study how digital culture is changing the politics of faith.

Europeans who traveled to the thirteen colonies brought countless strains of Christianity with them, and the freedom of the wild frontier allowed many new sects and congregations to flourish. David Holmes gives us insights into the religious beliefs of the founding fathers.