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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The First Amendment does indeed protect our freedom of speech, but nowhere in the Constitution is a provision protecting us from the consequences of whatever it is we feel compelled to say.

Barack Obama launched his presidency before an estimated 1.5 million people on the National Mall on Tuesday with somber yet ...

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 of American ...

A 1868 lithograph from the Library of Congress depicts Alton's riverfront, featuring City Hall and the Chicago & Alton ...