What a South Dakota State Library debate pitting Christianity Today against Planned Parenthood reveals about the sexual left.

Condoms and abstinence can both play a role in AIDS prevention.

To achieve holiness, believed the early monks, you must soak in the moral sense of the Word.

Samuel Ajayi Crowther's consecration as the first African Anglican bishop looked like a great leap forward for the church. But the talented ex-slave collided with the roadblock of racism

Evangelical assumptions about singleness still need rethinking

The church has an unprecedented chance to reach a generation burned by commitment-free sex

Antony and the Desert Fathers

What many found when they sought God in a seemingly God-forsaken landscape.

The questions that hover in the background of this issue are as pressing as ever.

Modern Christian hermits still look to him for inspiration, as did the entire Middle Ages, but today we hardly know him. What did the illiterate recluse, known as Antony of the Desert, do to earn such adulation?

Athanasius's biography was not only a bestseller in its day, but a book that made people stop and think—and act.

What monks meant by fasting, and what they ate when they didn't.

Why thousands of early Christians took up the monastic way.

Jerome was a disciplined ascetic who was on top of current affairs.

For the desert fathers, theology was not the study of God but the study of how to become like God.

For a culture so reputedly bloodthirsty and 'barbarian,' the Celts were surpringsly winsome.

Irish monks and nuns are famous for their spiritual heroics.

The legendary exploits of four early Celtic leaders.

The two most widespread medieval heresies