American secular: The founding moment of the United States brought a society newly freed from religion — what went wrong? John T. McGreevy reviews The Origins of American Religious Nationalism by Sam Haselby. Peter Laarman reviews Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation by Nicholas Guyatt. Victoria M. Massie on how American Christianity has long struggled to be on the right side of racial justice. The Watchmen: What became of the Christian intellectuals? White Christian America is dying: John Sides interviews Robert P. Jones, author of The End of White Christian America. Culture warriors surrender, but battles rage on. George Hawley on how Christians are becoming objectively more liberal, but not more likely to call themselves liberal, and on racial/ethnic diversity and denomination decline. Are there common characteristics of thriving Christian congregations?
Chris Lehmann on what a series of cosmic evangelical thrillers tells us about money in America (and more from The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream). Evangelicals are losing the battle for the Bible — and they’re just fine with that. “You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means”: Anthony L. Blair on a better way to be evangelical.
