Jonathan Edwards’s sermon reflects the complicated religious culture of eighteenth-century America, influenced not just by Calvinism, but Newtonian physics as well.

Philip Sidney’s attempt at translating the Psalms ended with his early death. Then, his sister took up the cause—and proved herself the superior poet.

Listlessness, boredom, torpor, that "noonday demon" that tempts you away from spiritual connections—that's what was called acedia.

Jarena Lee was the first female preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1836, she published her autobiography.

Despite the high rates of religious adherence in the United States, fewer Americans are reading the Bible than at any point in history.