For 100 years, the American Puritans strove to create a model Christian society.

What Puritans did to grow spiritually

A persuasive appeal from a powerful evangelist.

How much did Christians borrow from Greek and Roman religions?

Historical documents describing Christians at worship

In third-century Rome, baptism was high drama

Little-known or remarkable facts about worship in the early church

A collection of eyewitness accounts

Junipero Serra launched a remarkable enterprise on Spain's final frontier

Junípero Serra and his successors established 21 missions in California between 1769 and 1823. Each mission was a combination military outpost and religious commune; together, they were a colorful experiment in missions.

They often risked floggings to worship God.

At first, most Civil War soldiers cared little for religion. But as the bloody war dragged on, hundreds of thousands converted to Christ.

From birth to death, a peasant woman's difficult life intersected the church.

The story he told over 280 times in his sermons