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DECEMBER
Festive Flora
Why holly and not hyacinth, poinsettias and not peonies? Learn the legends behind your favorite holiday plants.
by Elesha Coffman
December 22 - January 4, 2000-01
Peace on Earth?
Christmas Carols and the Civil War.
by Elesha Coffman
December 15-21, 2000
Why December 25?
For the church's first three centuries, Christmas wasn't in December—or on the calendar at all.
by Elesha Coffman
Week of December 8-14, 2000
1 Book Everyone Should Buy
131 Christians Everyone Should Know is like a super-concentrated, portable version of Christian History—which isn't surprising, considering that we wrote it.
by Elesha Coffman
Week of December 1-7, 2000
NOVEMBER
The Saga of St. Chad
If anyone should be named patron saint of botched elections, ironically, it's Chad.
by Elesha Coffman
Week of November 24 - December 1, 2000
Accidental Radical
Jan Hus's ideas were so sound, it's amazing they were ever considered revolutionary.
by Elesha Coffman
Week of November 17-23, 2000
A Book of Books
I enjoyed William and Randy Petersen's 100 Christian Books That Changed the Century, but I would have picked a slightly different list.
by Randy Bishop
CH, November 10, 2000
The Un-Denomination
With no creeds or hierarchy to bind them, it's not surprising that Baptists have a history of breaking apart.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, November 3, 2000
OCTOBER
Crossroads of Faith and History
Evangelical historians trade their views on the meaning of "Christian history."
by Elesha Coffman
CH, October 27, 2000
Case of the Missing Relic
A piece of the true cross has been stolen in Toronto—but how did it get there in the first place?
by Elesha Coffman
CH, October 20, 2000
The Politicians' Patron
Just in time for the election, Pope John Paul II prepares to declare Thomas More the patron saint of politicians—though More was not quite a model for all seasons.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, October 13, 2000
General Revelations
Everything you know about Civil War legends Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant is wrong. At least that's what some new scholarship is suggesting.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, October 6, 2000
SEPTEMBER
Olympia Revisited
Tracing Christian roots in the Olympics.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, September 29, 2000
Weighty Matters
Gwen Shamblin, founder of the Weigh Down diet, has
already been compared to the desert monks because her ideas link physical hunger and spiritual hunger. Now she can be compared to another early church figure, Arius, because her Christology is getting her in trouble.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, September 22, 2000
In Errancy
A historian's look at Byzantine lists reveals the workings of the Eastern mind and a new way to study religion in culture.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, September 15, 2000
"Kill Them All"
The medieval church was deadly serious about heretics like the Cathars. Author Stephen O'Shea, on the other hand, is only too kind.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, September 8, 2000
All Together Now
by Elesha Coffman
CH, September 1, 2000
AUGUST
Gauging a Legend
by Elesha Coffman
CH, August 25, 2000
Soviets, Schism, and Sabotage
by Elesha Coffman
CH, August 18, 2000
Sacrifice at Sea
The untold story of a true Titanic hero.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, August 11, 2000
Colonial Soul
Relations between American Indians and European settlers were often grim, but these Christian historical novels find a few hopeful stories.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, August 4, 2000
JULY
The Fifth Evangelist
Besides being the baroque era's greatest organist and composer, J.S. Bach was a theologian who just happened to work with a keyboard.
by Mark Galli
CH, July 28, 2000
How the Other Half Lived
Women in Scripture and Noble Daughters rediscover women of the Bible and the Middle Ages, then partially shroud them in feminist ideology.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, July 21, 2000
History for History-Phobes
For anyone who gets a headache just thinking about the church's past, Christian History Made Easy may be the cure.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, July 14, 2000
New Stabs in Old Wounds
by Elesha Coffman
CH, July 7, 2000
JUNE
Camp Fire
by Mark Galli
CH, June 30, 2000
For Better or Worse
by Elesha Coffman
CH, June 23, 2000
Like Father, Like Son
A look at the Mathers—three generations of ministers who maintained a virtual dynasty over New England Puritanism for nearly a century.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, June 16, 2000
Agent of Grace
A new film on the final years and martyrdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer gives a meaningful portrait of the theologian in action.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, June 9, 2000
Revive Us Again
Two very different books, History of the Pentecostal Revival in Chile and The Awakening: One Man's Battle with Darkness, show God's power at work in very different ways.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, June 2, 2000
MAY
Unexpected Heroes
by Mark Galli
CH, May 26, 2000
Asking the Wrong Questions
An exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls sheds some light on the manuscripts and their origins, but too many scholars blur the line between fact and theory.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, May 19, 2000
Glorified Gore
Gladiator sets the tone in Rome pretty accurately but stumbles on lots of historical details.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, May 12, 2000
Maniac or Martyr?
John Brown was a man you either loved or hated, feared or followed.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, May 5, 2000
APRIL
Dietrich's Friend Eberhard
Most of what we know about Dietrich Bonhoeffer came from the pen of his closest confidant, Eberhard Bethge.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, April 28, 2000
When is Easter this Year?
by Steven L. Ware
CH, April 20, 2000
Coming Soon to a Bookshelf Near You
History volumes made a good showing in the annual Christianity Today book awards.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, April 14, 2000
Give Peace a Chance
by Elesha Coffman
CH, April 7, 2000
MARCH
Donne on Death
A new edition of some of Donne's prose work is a useful companion to a volume of his poetry, while a "mildly modernized" version of his sonnets and sermons sets my teeth on edge.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, March 31, 2000
Heaven Can't Wait
by Elesha Coffman
CH, March 24, 2000
Forgive and Remember
by Elesha Coffman
CH, March 17, 2000
Modernism's Moses
"The question," conservative J. Gresham Machen once said of Harry Emerson Fosdick, "is not whether Dr. Fosdick is winning men, but whether the thing he is winning them to is Christianity."
by Bruce Shelley
CH, March 10, 2000
The Man They Made a Monkey
How "The Great Commoner," William Jennings Bryan, won a battle but lost a war.
by Bruce Shelley
CH, March 3, 2000
FEBRUARY
Guess Who?
by Elesha Coffman
CH, February 25, 2000
Christians in the Cause
Stamp of Glory, a novel by Tim Stafford, gives Christian abolitionists their due.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, February 18, 2000
The Caged Bird Wrote
Phillis Wheatley's life would make for a fairly depressing TV miniseries, but her inner strength and contributions to African American literature shouldn't be overlooked.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, February 11, 2000
A Cave of One's Own
The story of Thecla highlights the difficulty of reporting on early female monastics.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, February 4, 2000
JANUARY
For Better or Worse
The Anglican Church's struggle with divorce is nothing new—just consider King Henry VIII.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, January 28, 2000
Out With the Old?
Cardinals are supposed to retire at age 80, but popes are popes for life—except Celestine V.
by Elesha Coffman
CH, January 21, 2000
Roman, Lend Me Your Ear
by Elesha Coffman
CH, January 14, 2000
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