Heath W. Carter

Historian working at the intersection of Christianity and American Public Life

Books & Bylines


RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Heath’s insights and writing have been featured in a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Newsweek, CNN, The New RepublicMother Jones, JacobinThe Christian CenturySojournersChristianity Today, and Religion News Service.  Here are links to a sampling of these pieces:

“Is Donald Trump Going to Hell?” Mother Jones, April 2026

“Americans Should Stop Using the Term Christian Nationalism,” The Atlantic, March 2026

“The Social Gospel of the Streets,” Christian Century, December 2025

“The Mixed Legacy of a Leading Evangelical Family,” Christianity Today, June 2025

“A World That Might Yet Be,” Church Anew, April 2025

“The Friendship between Christians and the Labor Movement Shows Signs of Life,” Religion News Service, September 2024

“Did ‘Churchianity’ Sink American Socialism?,” Commonweal, July 2024

“There’s Another Christian Movement that is Changing our Politics,” CNN, November 2023

“UAW President Shawn Fain is Reviving that Old-Time Religion: Christian Radicalism,” Jacobin, September 2023

“Jesus or Trump? Conservative Christians Face Growing Rift,” Newsweek, August 2023

“Beware Drawing Bright Lines Between Evangelical and Ecumenical Protestants,” Christianity Today, February 2023

“We Should All Be a Little More Like Dorothy Day,” New York Times, September 2021

“Is America Possible?” Sojourners, July 2018

“From Jonathan Edwards to Jerry Falwell,” Christianity Today, August 2017

“The Church of Organized Labor,” New Republic, July 2015