What history's most prolific preacher said, in 1871, about the Prayer of Jabez

Why concerned parents should read the 17th-century Moravian educational reformer Jan Amos Comenius

What Would the Founding Fathers Do about the application of Christian principles to American politics? A few cautionary words.

Christian gyms and shopping malls may be new, but full-service megachurches are positively medieval

Why do Christians still chafe under restrictions in some Muslim nations? It all started with Umar

Emotions have historically run high as Christians have staked their claims to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Before trying to figure out what the framers of the Constitution really thought, remember that they were from a wildly different country-the past

Juan Diego could soon join a long line of pious, exemplary, and quite possibly imaginary Catholic heroes

"350 years ago, George Fox launched a powerful, peace-loving movement with an assault on established Christianity."

"Commentators who call proposed INS policies an unprecedented invasion of privacy forget what foreign visitors were asked 80 years ago, and why"

Bernard of Clairvaux was a tough act to follow-yet thousands of Christians walked his path

"Church leaders didn't like Pelagius's ideas about free will, but they've never been able to avoid them completely"

Mother's Day and Memorial Day were meant to go together

If you want to know what the establishment of religion looks like, check out church history, not American tax law

Views from inside Roman, English, and German prisons give a sense of how kidnapped missionaries might feel.

Washington's struggle to sell the American image overseas illustrates how sharply today's reality differs from seventeenth-century ideals

When Martin Luther stood up for his ideas at the Diet of Worms, did he really say, Here I stand?

In the twelfth century, an intellectual challenge to church authority proved much more dangerous than a sex scandal

Evangelizing on-the-go Americans only seems harder than it used to be