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PAUL W. GLEASON | By now, the demographic decline of the Protestant mainline churches is unmistakable...

WILL THEISS | In 1884, General Charles Gordon, the bumbling British imperialist who had earned his fame in China, was wasting away at...

ROSS MCCOLLOUGH | A specter is haunting conservatism — the specter, indeed, of Marx...

MARGARET LITVIN | To an academic, any collection of “voices” from the Middle East stirs some doubts...

AUDREY BOROWSKI | Sacrifice has endured as a permanent fixture on our horizon...

RON HAFLIDSON | After he was shot and killed by police in 2014, Michael Brown’s body lay alone on a street for several hours...

SARAH IFFT DECKER | The thirteenth century was a tumultuous time for the Jews of France...

CIAHNAN DARRELL | When I was twenty years old, I was attacked by a group of people outside a nightclub...

CLAY GREENE | In 1959, a British novelist and chemist named Charles Percy Snow delivered a memorable lecture at the University of...

SARAH E. ROLLENS | At the Temple Gates takes its title from the location where numerous philosophers and religious specialists gathered...

CLIO DOYLE | Science was everywhere in the seventeenth century, especially in literature...

JONATHON LOOKADOO | Historical facts and obscure trivia provide excellent material for pub quizzes...