Two deeper histories on people mentioned in a recent column: a famous orator and a mother and son who survived the Holocaust.

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

There's always what we say, and what we mean, and a gap between the two; what we mean to do, and what we really do, and a gap ...

The best antidote to Christian nationalism will not be a high and impenetrable “wall of separation” between religion and ...

The U.S. government has an official plan for a zombie apocalypse Think The Walking Dead is straight-up fiction? Well, it is—but the government wants to be prepared for a real-life version anyhow. The ...

It’s the middle of April in twenty-five, and hardly a man or woman is now alive who knows by heart the opening of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem that once was memorized by generations ...

OPINION- It’s the middle of April in twenty-five, and hardly a man or woman is now alive who knows by heart the opening of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem that once was memorized by ...

On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...

A newly discovered note from CT’s first editor, Carl Henry, shows how King’s Birmingham Jail missive shifted a white pastor’s ...

In 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died of an assassin's bullet ... In 1931, Spanish Republicans formed a new government as King Alfonso sailed into exile. In 1944, the Soviet army captured ...