Introduction: The kaleidoscopic dynamics of faith and freedom / Charles W. Dunn -- Christianity and history / James H. Billington -- How the religious past frames America's future / Mark A. Noll -- Christophobia and the American future / Marvin Olasky -- Ideas that bring down empires: an evangelical case for scholarship / George Marsden -- When faith meets politics: what does it mean to take Washington, D.C., seriously? / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Reason, freedom, and the rule of law: the political significance of man's spiritual powers / Robert P. George -- Darwin's Black Box / Michael J. Behe -- And the wall came tumbling down: Pope John Paul II and the collapse of communism / George Weigel.