In the one-dimensional world of easy secular stereotypes, many mistakenly think that most Baptists have a bit of the snake-handler in them. But the only time I saw a rattler near church–behind the ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. On July 11, G-7 foreign ministers issued a “Statement on the Situation in the West ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Titled “Campaigning to the Choir,” Ms Greene’s piece is by-lined “Russellville, Tennessee,” and is designed to ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Listen to the official audio of Joseph Spence's "Give Me That Old Time Religion," a widely disseminated American traditional spiritual dating to ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Walking bravely into the “moral values” debate, Bob Somerby at the Daily Howler writes, “In the wake of the recent ...

Moody Bible Institute and corporate evangelicalism. Some preachers serve as religious brand-names, standing in for entire movements. A North Carolina farm boy played that role in postwar ...