My grandchild barely survived birth. Worldwide, too many newborns do not.

"The Wonder Worker"

The spiritual dynamism of West African Christianity is now well known even in the West. Do credulity-stretching, highly publicized miracles discredit what God is doing in that region?

Clarity came just as things got blurry.

Quotations to stir heart and mind.

It takes a special kind of birth to grab the world's attention.

Why it matters that "a real son of a real mother" did not have a human father.

I had no idea what God would do when I asked him to use me.

Why doesn't God cure everyone who prays fervently for healing?

The spiritual dynamism of West African Christianity is now well known even in the West. Do credulity-stretching, highly publicized miracles discredit what God is doing in that region?

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Oblivious to convention, Chesterton launched a bold campaign to point a mad world back to truth.

Combining Christian convictions and scholarly conventions, two historians create very different blends.

Hagiography may not be factual biography, but it captures the practices and ideals of pre-modern Christianity perfectly.

In Bede's view, the history of the English church—like the history of redemption—begins in Genesis and ends in Revelation.

Sometimes even hagiographers wondered if their stories were too good to be true.

Interesting and unusual facts about John and Charles Wesley.

The fifth-century theologian answers five crucial twenty-first-century questions.

The stories of desert fathers' skirmishes with demons pointed to a larger struggle—and victory.