Articles
- The History of Christianity in AmericaThe history of Christianity in America spans European colonial settlements, revolutionary separation of church and state, sweeping spiritual revivals, and dynamic denominational movements shaping national culture.
- The First Great AwakeningThe First Great Awakening swept through Britain's American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s, transforming colonial religious life through passionate preaching, personal conversion, and democratic spiritual fervor.
- The Second Great AwakeningThe Second Great Awakening reshaped American Christianity between 1790 and 1840, igniting massive camp meetings, spurring rapid Methodist and Baptist growth, and launching influential moral reform movements.
- The Azusa Street Revival of 1906The Azusa Street Revival of 1906 in Los Angeles transformed modern Christianity, sparking the global Pentecostal movement through multiracial worship, speaking in tongues, and passionate spiritual renewal.
- The History of the Black Church in AmericaThe history of the Black church represents a defining movement in American religious life, forging autonomous institutions that nurtured spiritual freedom, civil rights leadership, and distinctive cultural traditions.
- The Spanish Missions of California, Texas and the SouthwestThe Spanish missions established across North America between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries formed an extensive network of Catholic frontier outposts that permanently shaped American architecture and culture.
- The Puritans and Pilgrims: Religion in Early New EnglandThe Puritans and Pilgrims settled seventeenth-century New England seeking spiritual purity, establishing covenantal churches, local Congregational governance, and enduring traditions that shaped American culture.
- The Oldest Churches in AmericaDetermining the oldest church in America requires distinguishing between continuous congregations and surviving buildings, from southwestern adobe chapels to early British colonial brick sanctuaries.
- Religion and the Founding FathersThe Founding Fathers' religion spanned orthodox Christianity, rational deism, and Enlightenment thought, shaping revolutionary convictions regarding religious liberty and the separation of church and state.
- The Jesus Movement of the 1960s and 70sThe Jesus Movement swept across America during the late 1960s and 1970s, turning hippie counterculture into an evangelical revival that revolutionized modern church style, contemporary music, and informal worship.
- Camp Meetings and Tent Revivals in AmericaAmerican camp meetings emerged on the early nineteenth-century frontier, evolving from rustic multi-day forest encampments into influential tent revivals and permanent Victorian spiritual retreats.
- The Social Gospel MovementThe Social Gospel movement emerged in the late nineteenth century, calling American churches to confront urban poverty, child labor, and economic injustice through systemic Christian social reform.
- The Church and the Civil Rights MovementThe role of the church in the civil rights movement transformed American society, providing the spiritual courage, organizational base, nonviolent philosophy, and prophetic rhetoric that dismantled Jim Crow laws.
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