“History” Articles

Finding Your Roots uses the lens of a particular person’s experience to reflect our own.

While the Christmas story is Marvel-like in the sense that it explains Jesus’s supernatural powers by showing us his supernatural origins, it’s not fictional.

In writing fiction, Taylor Swift has somehow managed to ponder the deeper truths of love and loss and life.

The lesson is that if we don’t tell the true stories, if we fail to pass them down to future generations, the lies will rush into the vacuum and take over.

Even though How to Train Your Dragon should be a very silly story, sometimes very silly stories manage to say the very best things.

Jesus and John Wayne is history as confession, history as lament, a type of history that hopes in a God who never puts us to shame, even as hope in America does.

We must also educate ourselves, immersing ourselves in the stories and experiences of the Black communities and individuals in America.

We live in a world where superstars can be superstars filled with awe-inspiring athleticism and uncomfortable flaws, and antagonists can be understood without compromising our understanding of ethics. 

Star Trek: Picard suggests that understanding history is vital toward moving forward rightly

Jordan Peele’s Us critiques who we are as a nation and people, and from where we’ve come.

In these seasons of Advent and Christmas especially, history points to a church whose worship is particularly political.

“There’s a visceral reaction to our flag—as there should be—because of its history. And here in Mississippi, we don’t know our history.”

More than anything, Slow Burn reminded me of one of evangelicals’ (and Americans’) greatest blind spots: our own history.

In many ways, the story of Korean food and culture in my life, with its Kentucky Baptist roots, is the story of how we travel through the world.

Having thus cheated death twice, you might think that Thecla would abandon Christianity in favor of staying alive, but of course you’d be wrong.

The spicy sweetness of hot cross buns holds the juxtaposition of this odd day—while we mourn the darkness, we know the light is on its way.