Proposition 6, better known as the Briggs Initiative, was the first attempt to restrict the rights of lesbian and gay Americans by popular referendum.

American oilman Lyman Stewart embodied the uniquely American paradoxes of what would become capitalist Christian fundamentalism and the prosperity gospel.

The idea of a virtual Eucharist may feel at odds with Catholic tradition, but it has deep roots in the church’s history.

Because relics were understood to be capable of working miracles, any relic that was stolen must have wanted to be.

“Judge not, lest ye be judged” comes from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5–7 of the King James Bible. How has it become a harmless aphorism?

What ever happened to "the most radical attempt in modern history to challenge the Western standard temporal reference framework?"

Former homeschoolers are speaking out about sexual abuse by the Duggars and other leaders in the Christian homeschooling movement.

Thanksgiving as we know it was deliberately invented in the nineteenth century.