The community that Isker is helping to build in Tennessee is part of the Highland Rim Project, an initiative from a Christian ...

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He wrote influential books exploring the dramatic changes wrought by independence, bringing in overlooked perspectives — what ...

Possibly, the Founders all knew that their creation was not on solid ground. Benjamin Franklin, when asked what government ...

My grandparents landed on Ellis Island in 1902 with their 1-year-old son, my father, in their arms. Twenty-seven years later, in 1929, I was born. They ...

Jefferson believed that he was truly following Jesus by focusing on what was humanly possible rather than proof of Jesus’ ...

With a few notable exceptions, American presidents nurtured a lifetime habit of sustained character-building reading.

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

I think it is worth noting that a great number of our Founding Fathers who were pastors of Christian churches did not think it political to frame the Constitution and sign the Declaration of ...