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History Is Not Bunk
We've got to break free of our historical amnesia
A Christianity Today Editorial | posted 09/05/2003
Breaking Down the Faith/Learning Wall
How the history of Christians in higher education has stacked the deck against Robert Sloan's "new Baylor."
Collin Hansen
Learning From the Other 9/11
Words kill. So teachers, watch what you say.
Chris Armstrong
Not a Mercy but a Sin
The modern push for euthanasia is a push against a two-millenniums-old Christian tradition.
Chris Armstrong
John Paul II's "Canonization Cannon"
Why and how this pope has made over 470 saints.
Steven Gertz
The Next Pope: An African?
Sixty-four years ago, the Roman Catholic Church consecrated its first black African bishop. Is it time now for the next step?
Chris Armstrong
Breaking The Da Vinci Code
So the divine Jesus and infallible Word emerged out of a fourth-century power-play? Get real.
Collin Hansen
THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving in the Midst of Fear
Seriously ill in the days of the Black Plague, poet John Donne still celebrated God's goodness
Updated by Philip Yancey and introduced by Chris Armstrong
Good News to the Jew First
Critics of The Passion of Christ assume the story embodies an anti-Semitic message. But does it?
Steven Gertz
Thanks, Da Vinci Code …
… for sending us back to Christianity's "founding fathers"—and the Bible we share with them.
Chris Armstrong
When World Leaders Pray, Part II
Tony Blair's spin-doctors worried when he recently "outed" himself as a Christian. But what impact has Christianity really had on our leaders?
Chris Armstrong
The Day the Ransoming Began
A gripping new book details the first American missionary hostage crisis, over 100 years ago.
Reviewed by Chris Armstrong
Got Your "Spiritual Director" Yet?
The roots of a resurgent practice, plus 14 books for further study.
Chris Armstrong and Steven Gertz
When World Leaders Pray
Some observers are upset with Tony Blair's recent public avowal of faith. But what impact has Christianity really had on our leaders?
Chris Armstrong
Iraqi Christians' Path of Persecution
Not heresy hunters, nor Islamic purges, nor even Mongol hordes could wipe Christianity from Iraq.
Collin Hansen
Top Ten Reasons to Read Christian History
War's reports deluge us every hour. Why should we read the "old news" of Christian history?
by Chris Armstrong
How Can War Be Christian?
Augustine's "just war" theory has guided the church through many conflicts.
By Robert L. Holmes; introduction by Chris Armstrong | posted 03/20/2003
Saint J. R. R. the Evangelist
Tolkien wanted his Lord of the Rings to echo the "Lord of Lords"—but do we have ears to hear?
Chris Armstrong
The Ancient Rise and Recent Fall of Tithing
Is yet another time-honored Christian practice fading from view?
Collin Hansen
The African Lion Roars in the Western Church
Anglican liberals are fretting, conservatives rejoicing, and all are scrambling to their history books: whence this new evangelical force on the world scene?
Chris Armstrong
How John Wesley Changed America
Why should Wesley's 300th birthday be a red-letter day on this side of the ocean?
Chris Armstrong
Did Eric Rudolph Act in a "Tradition of Christian Terror"?
A historian considers the evidence of the Crusades and the Inquisition.
Chris Armstrong
From Beer to Bibles to VBS
How America got its favorite summer tradition.
Steven Gertz
Medical Missions' African Legacy
For generations, missionary doctors have healed body and soul in Africa.
Timothy C. Morgan
European Christianity's "Failure to Thrive"
Why Christendom, born with an imperial bang, is now fading away in an irrelevant whimper.
Collin Hansen
Where Have All the Classics Gone?
These days it's a triumph when a movie is simply inoffensive. But we can do better than that!
Chris Armstrong
Finding God in a Box
Have archaeological discoveries like the James ossuary served or obscured the quest to verify the Bible?
Steven Gertz
The Christian DNA of Modern Genetics
Though open to frightening ethical abuse, genetics has been a Christian vocation since Gregor Mendel did his famous pea-plant experiments in the mid-nineteenth century.
Chris Armstrong
Sex, Politics, and the Bible
Some words just don't mean what they used to.
Reviewed by Chris Armstrong
Caveat Gyrator (Elvis Priestly, Part II)
So you've got an evangelistic pop-culture act ready for prime time. Here's a historical pause for reflection.
Chris Armstrong
From Oratorios to Elvis
Pop culture has been coming to a church near you for hundreds of years.
Chris Armstrong
Iraq's Christians Caught in the Middle, Again
If the looming war breaks out, 350,000 Iraqi Christians will be caught in a West-East conflict eerily similar to 4th-century events.
Collin Hansen
Heresy, Salvation, and Jack the Ripper
Why heresy trials will have to do, until something better comes along.
Chris Armstrong
Hajj, Feasts, and Pilgrimage
Why Muslims, Jews, and Christians still yearn for their holy places.
Steven Gertz
Play Me That Hot Puritan Love Song
A little-read book of the Bible reminds us of the astonishing intimacy we enjoy with Christ
By Chris Armstrong | posted 02/14/2003
300-Year-Old Man Returns to Lead His Church
Evangelicals need this grandfather figure more than ever.
By Chris Armstrong | posted 12/05/2003
Can Anything Good Come Out of New England?
Evangelical revival in the land of the liberal Brahmins may not be as historically odd as we suppose.
Chris Armstrong
The Palestinian Christians: Strangers in a Familiar Land
They've called the Holy Land home for centuries, but they've never actually governed themselves.
Steven Gertz
J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: A Legendary Friendship
A new book reveals how these two famous friends conspired to bring myth and legend—and Truth—to modern readers.
Reviewed by Chris Armstrong
The Ten Commandments, How Deep Our Debt
The words of the Decalogue run like a river through not only the church but also English and American history.
Chris Armstrong
College Sports: Prodigal Son of "Muscular Christianity"
In the wake of a basketball scandal at a prominent Christian university, we take time to remember the Christian roots of college athletics.
Chris Armstrong
Liberia's Troubled Past—And Present
The nation's history explains why the current conflict succumbs to, yet simultaneously transcends, the stereotype of African tribal wars.
Collin Hansen
Top Ten Christian History 'Starter Books'
Get rooted in the Christian past with these riveting reads.
Chris Armstrong
Missionary Tales from the Iraqi Front
The modern Anglican mission to Iraq met with initial success, but its story sounds a cautionary note.
Steven Gertz
LENT & HOLY WEEK
The Goodness of Good Friday
An unhappy celebration—isn't that an oxymoron?
Chris Armstrong
Top Ten Entry Points to Christian History
Some enjoyable ways to get the most out of the work of church historians.
Chris Armstrong
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