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Olympia Revisited
Tracing Christian roots in the Olympics.
Elesha Coffman
Weighty Matters
Gwen Shamblin, founder of the Weigh Down diet, has already been compared to the desert monks because her ideas link physical hunger and spiritual hunger. Now she can be compared to another early church figure, Arius, because her Christology is getting her
Elesha Coffman
In Errancy
A historian's look at Byzantine lists reveals the workings of the Eastern mind and a new way to study religion in culture.
Reviewed by Elesha Coffman
"Kill Them All"
The medieval church was deadly serious about heretics like the Cathars. Author Stephen O'Shea, on the other hand, is only too kind.
Reviewed by Elesha Coffman
Case of the Missing Relic
A piece of the true cross has been stolen in Toronto—but how did it get there in the first place?
Elesha Coffman
General Revelations
Everything you know about Civil War legends Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant is wrong. At least that's what some new scholarship is suggesting.
Reviewed by Elesha Coffman
The Saga of St. Chad
If anyone should be named patron saint of botched elections, ironically, it's Chad.
Elesha Coffman
Accidental Radical
Jan Hus's ideas were so sound, it's amazing they were ever considered revolutionary.
Elesha Coffman
A Book of Books
I enjoyed William and Randy Petersen's 100 Christian Books That Changed the Century, but I would have picked a slightly different list.
Reviewed by Randy Bishop
Asking the Wrong Questions
An exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls sheds some light on the manuscripts and their origins, but too many scholars blur the line between fact and theory.
Elesha Coffman
Glorified Gore
Gladiator sets the tone in Rome pretty accurately but stumbles on lots of historical details.
Elesha Coffman
Maniac or Martyr?
John Brown was a man you either loved or hated, feared or followed.
Elesha Coffman
Donne on Death
A new edition of some of Donne's prose work is a useful companion to a volume of his poetry, while a "mildly modernized" version of his sonnets and sermons sets my teeth on edge.
Reviewed by Elesha Coffman
Heaven Can't Wait
Elesha Coffman
Forgive and Remember
Elesha Coffman
Modernism's Moses
"The question," conservative J. Gresham Machen once said of Harry Emerson Fosdick, "is not whether Dr. Fosdick is winning men, but whether the thing he is winning them to is Christianity."
Bruce Shelley
The Man They Made a Monkey
How "The Great Commoner," William Jennings Bryan, won a battle but lost a war.
Bruce Shelley
Camp Fire
Mark Galli
For Better or Worse
Elesha Coffman
Like Father, Like Son
A look at the Mathers—three generations of ministers who maintained a virtual dynasty over New England Puritanism for nearly a century.
by Elesha Coffman
Agent of Grace
A new film on the final years and martyrdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer gives a meaningful portrait of the theologian in action.
Elesha Coffman
Revive Us Again
Two very different books, History of the Pentecostal Revival in Chile and The Awakening: One Man's Battle with Darkness, show God's power at work in very different ways.
Reviewed by Elesha Coffman
How the Other Half Lived
Women in Scripture and Noble Daughters rediscover women of the Bible and the Middle Ages, then partially shroud them in feminist ideology.
Reviewed by Elesha Coffman
History for History-Phobes
For anyone who gets a headache just thinking about the church's past, Christian History Made Easy may be the cure.
Reviewed by Elesha Coffman
New Stabs at Old Wounds
For Better or Worse
The Anglican Church's struggle with divorce is nothing new—just consider King Henry VIII.
Elesha Coffman
Out With the Old?
Cardinals are supposed to retire at age 80, but popes are popes for life—except Celestine V.
Elesha Coffman
Roman, Lend Me Your Ear
Elesha Coffman
Christians in the Cause
Stamp of Glory, a novel by Tim Stafford, gives Christian abolitionists their due.
Reviewed by Elesha Coffman
The Caged Bird Wrote
Phillis Wheatley's life would make for a fairly depressing TV miniseries, but her inner strength and contributions to African American literature shouldn't be overlooked.
Elesha Coffman
A Cave of One's Own
The story of Thecla highlights the difficulty of reporting on early female monastics.
Elesha Coffman
CHRISTMAS
Festive Flora
Why holly and not hyacinth, poinsettias and not peonies? Learn the legends behind your favorite holiday plants.
Elesha Coffman
CHRISTMAS
Peace on Earth?
Christmas Carols and the Civil War.
Elesha Coffman
CHRISTMAS
Why December 25?
For the church's first three centuries, Christmas wasn't in December—or on the calendar at all.
Elesha Coffman
1 Book Everyone Should Buy
131 Christians Everyone Should Know is like a super-concentrated, portable version of Christian History—which isn't surprising, considering that we wrote it.
Reviewed by Elesha Coffman
Soviets, Schism, and Sabotage
Elesha Coffman
Sacrifice at Sea
The untold story of a true Titanic hero.
Elesha Coffman
Colonial Soul
Relations between American Indians and European settlers were often grim, but these Christian historical novels find a few hopeful stories.
Reviewed by Elesha Coffman
Dietrich's Friend Eberhard
Most of what we know about Dietrich Bonhoeffer came from the pen of his closest confidant, Eberhard Bethge.
Elesha Coffman
LENT & HOLY WEEK
When Is Easter This Year?
Steve L. Ware
Coming Soon to a Bookshelf Near You
History volumes made a good showing in the annual Christianity Today book awards.
Reviewed by Elesha Coffman
Give Peace a Chance
Elesha Coffman
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