For the first time, archaeologists have uncovered definitive proof ofearly Christian life in the Arabian Gulf, thanks to the ...

Combining Christian convictions and scholarly conventions, two historians create very different blends. C.S. Lewis wrote, “History is a story written by the finger of God.” But can we spot God ...

Long before formal canonization, the first Christian saints were martyrs—honored not by popes, but by the people. This is how ...

This History of Christianity is written from the standpoint of a modern evangelicalism which has either transcended controversy or knows how to obscure controversial issues by an emphasis upon ...

Despite many tragic failures, the church redressed these wrongs. One striking thing about Christian history is this built-in corrective at the heart of the faith.

One is tempted to suspect that she came to the history of Christianity with healing-tinted glasses and something to prove. But the study, even-handed and far-reaching in scope (it ranges across ...

Any Christian interpretation of history that doesn’t speak to that destination seems beside the point—and risky, too. The examples Wright cites seem to demand humility.

An expression of the sadness and hope of one black man, a pastor and Cullman native.

Taking inspiration from social historian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, Bass plays the role of advocate rather than objective historian. In contrast to triumphalistic Big-C ...

Steven Green argues convincingly in his new book, Inventing a Christian America, that the "origin myth" of a Christian founding did not begin with the founding generation, but decades later, and ...

For readers who’d like to know more about Malta’s interesting Christian history, here’s a summary of the main events, courtesy of the Archdiocese of Malta. At Paul’s Shipwreck on his way ...