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Christian History
The Forgotten Woman of Evangelical History
Sarah Osborn's 18th-century life reveals an astonishing amount about the origins of American evangelicalism.
March 14, 2013
This American Christian Life
Series shows why we need to know our U.S. church history.
January 29, 2013
Why 'Mere Christianity' Should Have Bombed
Knowing why it didn't can help us strengthen our witness today.
December 27, 2012
How the Early Church Made Peace with Prosperity
As the early church grew in wealth and stature, it displaced existing Roman models of caring for the poor.
December 26, 2012
What You Need to Know About the Bay Psalm Book
Boston's Old South Church is selling a copy of the historic volume. Here's why it's such a big deal.
December 11, 2012
A Century After Bringing the Theater to Church, Aimee Semple McPherson Heads to Broadway
Foursquare Foundation helped to finance Kathie Lee Gifford's "Scandalous."
November 14, 2012
Seeing the Hidden Grace of Alzheimer's
Those who appear weak and foolish can be powerful conduits of God's love.
November 6, 2012
A Historian Decries Evangelicals' Power Politics—on Both Left and Right
But Kenneth Collins's libertarian contempt for government is not the way forward.
October 18, 2012
Lee Grady Opens the Door for Women
The 'Charisma' editor says today's women should stop waiting for Prince Charming and get out into the mission field.
October 17, 2012
What Galileo's Telescope Can't See
There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in contemporary understandings of science and faith.
September 28, 2012
Will America Keep the Faith?
Journalist David Aikman wonders whether our nation will squander its spiritual heritage.
September 20, 2012
'Jesus Said to Them, "My Wife..."'
Manuscript fragment apparently from the 300s suggests debate over whether Jesus was married.
September 19, 2012
A Bridge Between North and South
Elijah Kim's survey of global Christianity envisions "renewalist" movements fostering a new era of evangelical unity.
September 17, 2012
Wilson's Bookmarks
Brief reviews of 'Turning Points,' 'Gauguin, Cezanne, Matisse,' and 'With the Night Mail'
September 13, 2012
Out with the Old (Testament)?
Paula Fredriksen ignores the early church's Israelite foundations, producing a selective (but lively) history of the idea of sin.
September 13, 2012
Timothy George on the Reformers' Postmodern Moment
The historical theologian says Luther and Calvin show us how to read the Bible for the sake of the church.
June 29, 2012
When Are We Going to Grow Up? The Juvenilization of American Christianity
We're all adolescents now.
June 8, 2012
Scholars Aim to Bust Archaeological Fantasies
Peer review can take years—but academic society says some claims can be dismissed in a few blog posts.
April 4, 2012
John Stott: A Uniter and a Divider
A new biography portrays both the evangelist's triumphs and his frustrations.
February 29, 2012
How the Physical Form of a Bible Shapes Us
Will the digital Scriptures speed the decline of family spirituality once fostered by family Bibles?
January 17, 2012
Education Is in Our DNA
We should support every effort to upgrade our failing schools.
December 13, 2011
Archaeology's Rebel: Bible in One Hand, Spade in the Other
Eilat Mazar is unafraid to claim archaeological finds of biblical proportions.
November 11, 2011
The Green Collection: Bibles and More
The "Passages" exhibition will travel to Atlanta, the Vatican, New York, and other cities.
October 24, 2011
Criminalizing Circumcision
We have secularized the ancient Jewish rite—but it is still inescapably religious.
August 29, 2011
Mark Noll on the Foundation of the Evangelical Mind
Christian scholarship must be rooted in the person and work of Christ, says the Notre Dame historian.
August 26, 2011
King James and Queen Victoria: John Wilson Reviews Timothy Larsen's Latest
Even among the skeptics of 19th-century England, the Bible loomed large. A review of 'A People of One Book.'
August 22, 2011
Americans Like Evangelicals After All
What they really think about evangelicals, and why we worry about it.
August 5, 2011
Q & A: Bishop Kallistos Ware on the Fullness and the Center
The metropolitan archbishop of the Eastern Orthodox Church in the U.K. on evangelism, evangelicals, and the Orthodox Church.
July 6, 2011
Contemporary Music: The Cultural Medium and the Christian Message
What kind of Christians do contemporary services produce?
June 24, 2011
No Adam, No Eve, No Gospel
The historical Adam debate won't be resolved tomorrow, so stay engaged.
June 6, 2011
The Search for the Historical Adam
The center of the evolution debate has shifted from asking whether we came from earlier animals to whether we could have come from one man and one woman.
June 3, 2011
Remember the Red Sea
Why not capitalize on the richness and mystery of our ancient symbols?
May 19, 2011
Reforming the Reformed
Calvinists, says one Calvinist, misunderstand some of their history and theology. A review of 'Ten Myths About Calvinism.'
May 18, 2011
America as a Christian Nation? Cherry-Picking from the Past
Christian claims about the United States' origins need grounding in historical fact.
May 16, 2011
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