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Excerpt | Thomas Jefferson

Jordan Hunt / August 6, 2026

This is a biography of a brilliant but troubled person. Thomas Jefferson would seem to need no introduction, yet among […]

There would be no America without George Whitefield. He was the most important evangelistic preacher of the First Great Awakening.

In this edition of the Reading Wheel Review, CRCD Executive Director Jordan Ballor interviews Mark David Hall, who serves as

Did America Have a Christian Founding? offers straightforward clarity. Even before the reader reaches the first chapter, the introduction has

Civil War historian Allen Guelzo called history an answer to the “second question.” For him, the first question to satisfy

I have written or edited a dozen academic books, most of which consider in one way or another the relationship

Writers are intimately familiar with the dialogue that occurs over even the smallest of details in the course of creating

In this edition of the Reading Wheel Review, CRCD Executive Director Dr. Jordan Ballor interviews Dr. Kirstin Birkhaug. Dr. Birkhaug

Do words make anything happen? This sort of question—frequently posed of poetry, and posited more widely in disciplines within the

I have the privilege of teaching political theory to undergraduate students. The thinkers that pose the greatest challenge to these