A strange book. George Marsden, Bancroft Prize-winning author of “Jonathan Edwards: A Life” (2003), surveys postwar liberalism and its discontents in order “to reflect upon the problem of how American ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The indisputable achievement of American society in the second half of the 20th century was surely the ending of legally authorized discrimination against African Americans. Among the overwhelming ...

The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief, by George Marsden (Basic Books, 218 pp., $26.99) Marsden assumes that this view of middle-class American life ...

Marsden, (C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity) a history professor emeritus at Notre Dame University, follows up two biographies of Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) with an illuminating look at the ...

After World War II, a small cluster of intellectuals determined our cultural values. George Marsden says we need more voices at the table. If the number of awards scooped up by George Marsden's 2003 ...

On the Mount Rushmore of living American religious historians, four people hold a secure place: Martin Marty, Mark Noll, and George Marsden. (Borrowing a line from Marty, I haven't decided on the ...

Google the phrase "take America back" and you'll find thousands of people who feel their nation has been commandeered and must be retaken—maybe by force, maybe in a metaphorical sense; you're never ...