So you've got an evangelistic pop-culture act ready for prime time. Here's a historical pause for reflection.

Some words just don't mean what they used to …

Have archaeological discoveries like the James ossuary served or obscured the quest to verify the Bible?

'Tis the season when even the free-ranging revivalist pulls up a chair to the table of historic liturgy

How evangelism's senior statesman helped the hippies tune in, turn on to God.

A Christmas Carol remains the quintessential holiday story, but why?

An ageless story reminds us of the values the Victorians can still teach us

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

William Wilberforce saw two long charitable campaigns through, even in war's distracting shadow

Non-Catholics' spiritual status improved dramatically from Unam Sanctam to Vatican II, but where are we now?

How the grand old man of evangelism helped create Christian youth culture in the zoot-suit era

Before Moody, Finney, Edwards, and Mather came a long line of Catholic and Orthodox believers reputed to enjoy the promise of the Father.

What if you announced the rapture, but God didn't show up?

Miss America preaches a 2000-year-old message

World War II preacher points America back to the nation's soul

New historical survey highlights twentieth-century evangelicalism's impassioned middle decades

Wartime authors J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis help put 9/11 in perspective.

The attempt to bring European Christians together forced one reformer, Caspar Schwenckfeld, straight to the fringe

Ask D. L. Moody, Charles G. Finney, Jonathan Edwards, or Cotton Mather