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Evangelicalism's Decades of Fire
New historical survey highlights twentieth-century evangelicalism's impassioned middle decades.
Reviewed by Chris Armstrong
The Congo's African American Livingstone
Not your typical African missionary story.
Jennifer Parker
Standing Alone for Unity
The attempt to bring European Christians together forced one reformer, Caspar Schwenckfeld, straight to the fringe.
Elesha Coffman
9/11, History, and the True Story
Wartime authors J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis help put 9/11 in perspective.
Chris Armstrong
No Sex [Before Marriage], Please … We're Christian
Miss America preaches a 2000-year-old message.
Chris Armstrong
The King Is Coming, Eventually
What if you announced the rapture, but God didn't show up?
Elesha Coffman
Timeline of the Spirit-gifted
Before Moody, Finney, Edwards, and Mather came a long line of Catholic and Orthodox believers reputed to enjoy "the promise of the Father."
Chris Armstrong
Do Non-Charismatics 'Do' Holy Spirit Baptism?
Ask D. L. Moody, Charles G. Finney, Jonathan Edwards, or Cotton Mather.
Chris Armstrong
An "Ordinary Saint" in Wartime
William Wilberforce saw two long charitable campaigns through, even in war's distracting shadow
Chris Armstrong
"Tell Billy Graham: 'The Jesus People love him.'"
How evangelism's senior statesman helped the hippies "tune in, turn on to God." Part II of the story of Billy Graham and the origins of Christian youth culture.
Chris Armstrong
Dig that Billy Graham Cat!
How the grand old man of evangelism helped create Christian youth culture in the zoot-suit era.
Chris Armstrong
From Swamped Creatures to Separated Brethren
Non-Catholics' spiritual status improved dramatically from Unam Sanctam to Vatican II, but where are we now?
Elesha Coffman
Just War, Just Nation?
World War II preacher points America back to the nation's soul.
Steven Gertz
Captive Christians
Views from inside Roman, English, and German prisons give a sense of how kidnapped 5775 might feel.
Elesha Coffman
Of Church, State, and Taxes
If you want to know what the establishment of religion looks like, check out church history, not American tax law.
Elesha Coffman
Christ, Culture, andHistory
Is the "main character" in the church's story God, transforming faith, or an inspired yet wayward community?
Reviewed by Elesha Coffman
LENT & HOLY WEEK
Easter Eloquence
The holiday has inspired great words from some of history's greatest preachers.
Compiled by Elesha Coffman
LENT & HOLY WEEK
The Other Holy Day
In the rush toward Good Friday and Easter, don't forget Maundy Thursday.
Elesha Coffman
The Politics of Patrick
In the field of Irish history, every turn of phrase hints at the author's spin.
Reviewed by Elesha Coffman
Don't Touch That Dial
Could a bitter debate among religious broadcasters really cause a "full-scale split in evangelicalism"?
Elesha Coffman
Between Extremes
Church leaders tried repeatedly to distance themselves from one side of the grace-free will debate, but they usually ended up exactly where they didn't want to be: the middle.
Elesha Coffman
Severe Success
Bernard of Clairvaux was a tough act to follow—yet thousands of Christians walked his path.
Elesha Coffman
Coming to America
Commentators who call proposed INS policies an unprecedented invasion of privacy forget what foreign visitors were asked 80 years ago, and why.
Elesha Coffman
When Pacifists Attack
350 years ago, George Fox launched a powerful, peace-loving movement with an assault on established Christianity.
Elesha Coffman
Long Ago, Far Away
Those who seek to define the separation of church and state should also consider the separation of 2002 and 1789.
Elesha Coffman
Legacy of an Ancient Pact
Why do Christians still chafe under restrictions in some Muslim nations? It all started with Umar.
Chris Armstrong
Big Church Revival
Christian gyms and shopping malls may be new, but full-service megachurches are positively medieval.
Elesha Coffman
Phantom Saints
Juan Diego could soon join a long line of pious, exemplary, and quite possibly imaginary Catholic heroes.
Elesha Coffman
Final Solution, Part II
The Nazis planned to obliterate Christianity, too, according to newly published Nuremberg documents.
Elesha Coffman
Tell Me a Story
The most helpful church history scholarship is both broad and narrative.
Reviewed by Elesha Coffman
State of the Fragmentation
If "society" denotes a group with mutual interests and common culture, the American Society of Church History almost doesn't qualify.
Elesha Coffman
Spurgeon's Epiphany
The event he recounted more than 280 times in his sermons first occurred on January 6, 1850.
Mary Ann Jeffreys
The Cremation Question
Firm belief in resurrection hasn't kept Christians from caring—and arguing—about what happens to the bodies of the dead.
Elesha Coffman
Citius, Altius, Sanctus
The modern Olympics, though hardly Christian, hail from an era when athleticism was next to godliness.
Elesha Coffman
Zion Haste
Does the passion of a few nineteenth-century Chicagoans still influence American policy in the Middle East?
Elesha Coffman
Alternative Religions
Many non- and semi-Christian groups laid claim to the West, but none more successfully than the Mormons.
by Elesha Coffman
CHRISTMAS
Advent: Close Encounters of a Liturgical Kind
'Tis the season when even the free-ranging revivalist pulls up a chair to the table of historic liturgy.
Chris Armstrong
CHRISTMAS
No Humbug
"A Christmas Carol" remains the quintessential holiday story, but why?
Elesha Coffman
CHRISTMAS
I'm Dreaming of a Victorian Christmas
An ageless story reminds us of the values the Victorians can still teach us.
Chris Armstrong
How the Early Church Saw Heaven
The first Christians had very specific ideas about who they would meet in the afterlife.
Chris Armstrong
Christian History Corner: A Protestant Bishop Speaks Out on the Stakes of Public Education
Why concerned parents should read the 17th-century Moravian educational reformer Jan Amos Comenius.
By Chris Armstrong | posted 08/30/2002
Spurgeon on Jabez
What history's most prolific preacher said, in 1871, about the Prayer of Jabez.
Chris Armstrong
Divvying up the Most Sacred Place
Emotions have historically run high as Christians have staked their claims to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Chris Armstrong
History in a Flash
A new CD-ROM offers quick access to the facts of church history, plus interactive quizzes.
Elesha Coffman
Moving Targets
Evangelizing on-the-go Americans only seems harder than it used to be.
Elesha Coffman
The Profligate Provocateur
In the twelfth century, an intellectual challenge to church authority proved much more dangerous than a sex scandal.
Elesha Coffman
What Luther Said
When Martin Luther stood up for his ideas at the Diet of Worms, did he really say, "Here I stand"?
Elesha Coffman
National Makeover
Washington's struggle to sell the American image overseas illustrates how sharply today's reality differs from seventeenth-century ideals.
Elesha Coffman
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