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Antony and the Desert Fathers: Did You Know?
Spiritual Wisdom of the Desert Fathers
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Antony and the Desert Fathers: From the Editors - Models or Kooks?
The questions that hover in the background of this issue are as pressing as ever.
Mark Galli
The Best There Ever Was
Modern Christian hermits still look to him for inspiration, as did the entire Middle Ages, but today we hardly know him. What did the illiterate recluse, known as Antony of the Desert, do to earn such adulation?
Mark Galli
The Life Changing "Life of Antony"
Athanasius's biography was not only a bestseller in its day, but a book that made people stop and think—and act.
David Wright
Exorcizing the Desert
The stories of desert fathers' skirmishes with demons pointed to a larger struggle—and victory.
Diana Severance
Alone in the Desert?
Why thousands of early Christians took up the monastic way.
James E. Goehring
Diet For a Large Soul
What monks meant by fasting, and what they ate when they didn't.
Benedicta Ward
Antony and the Desert Fathers: Christian History Timeline
A Christian History Timeline
Ascetic Agitators
The early monks not only prayed in the desert but sometimes rioted in the cities.
Kenneth Calvert
Wordly Monk
Jerome was a disciplined ascetic who was on top of current affairs.
Kelvin Crow and Mark Galli
Holy Land
Sabas just wanted to pray where Christ had lived and died but ended up establishing the most famous monastery in the Judean Desert.
John Binns
Antony and the Desert Fathers: The Gallery - Getting Their Act Together
Monasticism was more or less a solitary affair until these four came along and taught monks how to live in community.
Columba Stewart; John Cassian; Frederica Mathews-Green; Macrina Basil; Marci Rae Johnson
Spiritual Pragmatists
For the desert fathers, theology was not the study of God but the study of how to become like God.
Dennis D. Martin
Antony and the Desert Fathers: Christian History Interview - Discovering the Desert Paradox
What many found when they sought God in a seemingly God-forsaken landscape.
conversation with Belden Lane, Presbyterian professor of theology at St. Louis U
Antony and the Desert Fathers: Recommended Resources
Antony and the Desert Fathers
Mark Galli
Conversion of the Vikings: Did You Know?
Fascinating and little-known facts about the Vikings and their times.
Conversion of the Vikings: From the Editors - A Living Conversion Story
Ted Olsen
End of the Known World
Norway Part 1: 'Be Christian or Die'
When it comes to conversion by the sword, few can match the ruthless exploits of King Olaf Trygvesson.
James Reston
Norway Part 2: Dead Man Converting
King Olaf Haraldsson had only moderate success at converting his people—until a year after he was killed in battle.
Michael Scott Rohan and Allan Scott
Why Trust the White Christ?
Besides spiritual solace, Vikings were attracted by Christianity's tangible blessings.
Birgit and Peter Sawyer
The Dead Still Speak
What runestones and graveyards reveal about the Vikings' conversion process
Birgit and Peter Sawyer
The Conversion of Scandinavia: Christian History Timeline
A Christian History timeline
Denmark: Planting the Seed
How missionaries' modest beginnings eventually bore fruit in Denmark
J.R. Christianson
Conversion of the Vikings: The Gallery - Power Evangelism Checked
The stories of three Viking rulers and their encounters with Christianity.
Georgia L. Beaverson
Sweden: Faith Without the Fireworks
The conversion of Sweden is unspectacular—and for that reason most illuminating.
Mark Galli
Greenland: Father-Son Saga
The story of Erik the Red, his son Leif (the famous explorer) and the most misnamed of Viking Islands
Roger McKnight
Iceland: Althings Work to the Good
At a legislative Althing, a pagan judge prevented civil war in iceland by converting everyone to Christianity.
James W. Marchand
Conversion of the Vikings: Christian History Interview - Converting By the Sword
Why Christians used it, why it worked, and why it died.
interview with Richard Fletcher
Conversion of the Vikings: Recommended Resources
Conversion of the Vikings
Black Christianity Before the Civil War: Did You Know?
Spiritual memories of slave—in their own words.
Black Christianity Before the Civil War: From the Editor - The Trojan Horse Gospel
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Defeating the Conspiracy
Ignorance, prejudice, and even Bible Christianity joined forces to sabotage the faith of African-American slaves.
Mark Galli
He Still Wid Us - Jesus
The musical theology of spirituals.
Yolanda Y. Smith
By Any Means Necessary
Black abolitionsts were tired of waiting for a gradual peaceful end to slavery.
Ted Olsen
From the Archives: Slavery Under Ideal Conditions
Henry Bibb
Black Moses
The mystical faith and no-nonsense tactics of the Underground Railroad's most famous leader.
Matt Donnelly
Black Christianity Before the Civil War: Christian History Timeline
A Christian History timeline
A. G. Miller
God's Avenging Scourge
Nat Turner's rebellion, the bloodiest in slave history, was driven by his prophetic visions.
Vincent Hardin
The Expatriate Option
Some blacks, like George Liele, had to emigrate to live and minister freely.
Milton C. Sernett
You Must Not Kneel Here
One April Sunday, Richard and fellow black Methodists decided they wouldn't stand for prejudice anymore.
Will Gravely
Baptist Power
How the largest African-American denomination in the world got its start.
Carolyn McCulley
Black Christianity Before the Civil War: A Gallery - The Fruit of Freedom
When given even a limited opportunity to grow, these African-American Christians blossomed.
Mark Sidwell
Shaking in the Multitude
The Christian History Link: The Dignity of Faith
What does the experience of black Christians before the Civil War have to say to American Christians (both black and white) today?
Albert J. Raboteau
Faith and Justice
What does the experience of black Christians before the Civil War have to say to American Christians (both black and white) today?
Cheryl Sanders
Need for Community
What does the experience of black Christians before the Civil War have to say to American Christians (both black and white) today?
Robert L. Stevenson
Black Christianity Before the Civil War: Recommended Resources
A History of the Second Coming: Did You Know? - Hall of Infamy
Hall of Antichrists: Nine (of many) who were thought to be forbearers of the End
A History of the Second Coming: From the Editor - Sliver in a Forest
Mark Galli
Historic Premillennialism: Taking the Long View
Most early Christian thinkers weren't troubled by the delay of Jesus' return. They were troubled by those who thought he was coming soon.
Dana Netherton
Amillennialism: Millennium Today
Augustine changed his mind—and that of the church in the West for the Next 1,500 years.
David Wright
Medieval Apocalypticism: Looking for the Last Emperor
The late Middle Ages was no tranquil era of religious harmony, but a hotbed of dissent and extreme speculation.
E. Randolph Daniel
Columbus's Millennial Voyage
The famous explorer was driven across the Atlantic by more than a quest for gold and glory.
Excerpts from The End of The World?, by Reginald Stackhouse, Copyright © 1997 by Reginald Stackhouse. Paulist Press, Inc, New York/Mahwah, NJ Reprinted by permission of Paulist Press, Inc. www.paulistpress.com
Reformation Amillennialism: Salvation Now, Salvation Forever
Luther and Calvin challenged the Catholic church on many key teachings—but not on the doctrine of last things.
John R. Franke
Reformation Apocalypticism: Münster's Monster
What began as prophetic fervor ended in dictatorship and blood.
Robert L. Wise
American Postmillennialism: Seeing the Glory
American Christians like Jonathan Edwards were optimistic about the end.
Steven R. Pointer
American Adventism: The Great Disappointment
When a New York farmer announced the date of Christ's return, thousands believed him.
Bruce Shelley
Dispensational Premillennialism: The Dispensationalist Era
How a once-mocked idea began its domination of the evangelical world.
Timothy Weber
Pentecostal Millennialism: The Second Comers
At first, the gift of tongues meant one thing: Jesus was returning soon.
Vinson Synan
Recent Premillennialism: Late Great Predictions
The events of recent decades have fired the imagination of a host of premillennialist, especially Hal Lindsey.
Robert G. Clouse
Judgment Day on the Big Screen
The end of the world according to filmmakers.
Peter T. Chattaway
A History of the Second Coming: Christian History Interview - Hope Beyond the Details
Christians have hardly agreed about how and when Christ will return—only that he will.
interview with Richard Kyle
A History of the Second Coming: Recommended Resources - The End of the World As We Know It
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