The unmentionable world of human waste.

How the English language evolved.

Nine stories of "evangelical disenchantment."

An atheist and a pastor square off—with surprising results.

Righteous acts, filthy rags, and a mission cemetery.

Last year's Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film is a study in gray.

A new selection in two volumes.

The seedbed of Martin Luther King Jr.'s, greatest speech.

The living tradition of Sacred Harp singing.

The senior terrorist organization in the world.

Two economies, two tales.

Meet Dame Frevisse, a 15th-century sleuth.

Church and state in Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play.

Auden at midcentury.

Eliot's Four Quartets

The grounds for human flourishing.

Reformed influences on America's founding principles.

Carl Schmitt, anti-Semitism, and liberal democracy.

An apostolic movement in Zimbabwe that rejects the Bible as a source of authority.

Swiss missionaries in southern Africa.

The curious history of the Riemann Hypothesis.

Suppose a negative times a negative doesn't equal a positive.