Black and white Christians in America could have been allies in the fight for life across racial and partisan lines.

A new book follows Lyman Beecher, his boundary-pushing children, and their grand ambitions to improve the world.

When the dust settled, the March massacre claimed the lives of at least 1,700 Alawites. Ziad, currently in Lebanon and granted anonymity to preserve the safety of his relatives in Syria, describes the ...