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DECEMBER
No Humbug
"A Christmas Carol" remains the quintessential holiday story, but why?
By Elesha Coffman
Posted December 20, 2002
I'm Dreaming of a Victorian Christmas
An ageless story reminds us of the values the Victorians can still teach us.
By Chris Armstrong
Posted December 13, 2002
Advent: Close Encounters of a Liturgical Kind
'Tis the season when even the free-ranging revivalist pulls up a chair to the table of historic liturgy.
By Chris Armstrong
Posted December 6, 2002
NOVEMBER
"Tell Billy Graham: 'The Jesus People love him.'"
How evangelism's senior statesman helped the hippies "tune in, turn on to God." Part II of the story of Billy Graham and the origins of Christian youth culture.
By Chris Armstrong
Posted November 29, 2002
Dig that Billy Graham Cat!
How the grand old man of evangelism helped create Christian youth culture in the zoot-suit era.
By Chris Armstrong
Posted November 22, 2002
From Swamped Creatures to Separated Brethren
Non-Catholics' spiritual status improved dramatically from Unam Sanctam to Vatican II, but where are we now?
By Elesha Coffman
Posted November 15, 2002
An "Ordinary Saint" in Wartime
William Wilberforce saw two long charitable campaigns through, even in war's distracting shadow
By Chris Armstrong
Posted November 8, 2002
Just War, Just Nation?
World War II preacher points America back to the nation's soul.
By Steven Gertz
Posted November 1, 2002
OCTOBER
No Sex [Before Marriage], Please … We're Christian
Miss America preaches a 2000-year-old message.
By Chris Armstrong
Posted October 25, 2002
The King Is Coming, Eventually
What if you announced the rapture, but God didn't show up?
by Elesha Coffman
Posted October 18, 2002
Timeline of the Spirit-gifted
Before Moody, Finney, Edwards, and Mather came a long line of Catholic and Orthodox believers reputed to enjoy "the promise of the Father."
By Chris Armstrong
Posted October 11, 2002
Do Non-Charismatics 'Do' Holy Spirit Baptism?
Ask D. L. Moody, Charles G. Finney, Jonathan Edwards, or Cotton Mather.
By Chris Armstrong
Posted October 4, 2002
SEPTEMBER
The Congo's African American Livingstone
Not your typical African missionary story
By Jennifer Parker
Posted September 27, 2002
Standing Alone for Unity
The attempt to bring European Christians together forced one reformer, Caspar Schwenckfeld, straight to the fringe.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted September 20, 2002
9/11, History, and the True Story
Wartime authors J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis help put 9/11 in perspective.
by Chris Armstrong
Posted September 13, 2002
Evangelicalism's Decades of Fire
New historical survey highlights twentieth-century evangelicalism's impassioned middle decades.
by Chris Armstrong
Posted September 6, 2002
AUGUST
The Stakes of Public Education: A Protestant Bishop Speaks Out
Why concerned parents should read the 17th-century Moravian educational reformer Jan Amos Comenius
by Chris Armstrong
Posted August 30, 2002
Spurgeon on Jabez
What history's most prolific preacher said, in 1871, about the Prayer of Jabez.
by Chris Armstrong
Posted August 23, 2002
History in a Flash
A new CD-ROM offers quick access to the facts of church history, plus interactive quizzes.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted August 16, 2002
How the Early Church Saw Heaven
The first Christians had very specific ideas about who they would meet in the afterlife.
by Chris Armstrong
Posted August 9, 2002
Divvying up the Most Sacred Place
Emotions have historically run high as Christians have staked their claims to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
by Chris Armstrong
Posted August 2, 2002
JULY
Legacy of an Ancient Pact
Why do Christians still chafe under restrictions in some Muslim nations? It all started with Umar.
by Chris Armstrong
Posted July 26, 2002
Big Church Revival
Christian gyms and shopping malls may be new, but full-service megachurches are positively medieval.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted July 19, 2002
Phantom Saints
Juan Diego could soon join a long line of pious, exemplary, and quite possibly imaginary Catholic heroes.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted July 12, 2002
Long Ago, Far Away
Those who seek to define the separation of church and state should also
consider the separation of 2002 and 1789.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted July 5, 2002
JUNE
Between Extremes
Church leaders tried repeatedly to distance themselves from one side of the grace-free will debate, but they usually ended up exactly where they didn't want to be: the middle.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted June 28, 2002
Severe Success
Bernard of Clairvaux was a tough act to follow—yet thousands of Christians walked his path.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted June 21, 2002
Coming to America
Commentators who call proposed INS policies an unprecedented invasion of privacy forget what foreign visitors were asked 80 years ago, and why.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted June 14, 2002
When Pacifists Attack
350 years ago, George Fox launched a powerful, peace-loving movement with an assault on established Christianity.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted June 7, 2002
MAY
Captive Christians
Views from inside Roman, English, and German prisons give a sense of how kidnapped missionaries might feel.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted May 31, 2002
The Cover's Story
A picture of Hagia Sophia, heavy with Christian and Islamic symbolism, speaks of centuries of ambition, sorrow, and bad faith.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted May 24, 2002
Of Church, State, and Taxes
If you want to know what the establishment of religion looks like, check out church history, not American tax law.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted May 17, 2002
Mom, We Salute You
Mother's Day and Memorial Day were meant to go together.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted May 10, 2002
Christ, Culture, and History
Is the "main character" in the church's story God, transforming faith, or an inspired yet wayward community?
by Elesha Coffman
Posted May 3, 2002
APRIL
Moving Targets
Evangelizing on-the-go Americans only seems harder than it used to be.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted April 26, 2002
The Profligate Provocateur
In the twelfth century, an intellectual challenge to church authority proved much more dangerous than a sex scandal.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted April 19, 2002
What Luther Said
When Martin Luther stood up for his ideas at the Diet of Worms, did he really say, "Here I stand"?
by Elesha Coffman
Posted April 12, 2002
National Makeover
Washington's struggle to sell the American image overseas illustrates how sharply today's reality differs from seventeenth-century ideals.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted April 5, 2002
MARCH
Easter Eloquence
The holiday has inspired great words from some of history's greatest preachers.
Compiled by Elesha Coffman
Posted March 28, 2002
The Other Holy Day
In the rush toward Good Friday and Easter, don't forget Maundy Thursday.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted March 22, 2002
The Politics of Patrick
In the field of Irish history, every turn of phrase hints at the author's spin.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted March 15, 2002
Don't Touch That Dial
Could a bitter debate among religious broadcasters really cause a "full-scale split in evangelicalism"?
by Elesha Coffman
Posted March 8, 2002
Translation Wars
Sharp as debate over the TNIV may be, the version's translators are getting off easy compared to John Wycliffe and William Tyndale.
by Elesha Coffman and Tony Lane
Posted March 1, 2002
FEBRUARY
The Cremation Question
Firm belief in resurrection hasn't kept Christians from caring-and arguing-about what happens to the bodies of the dead.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted February 22, 2002
Citius, Altius, Sanctus
The modern Olympics, though hardly Christian, hail from an era when athleticism was next to godliness.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted February 15, 2002
Alternative Religions
Many non- and semi-Christian groups laid claim to the West, but none more successfully than the Mormons.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted February 8, 2002
Zion Haste
Does the passion of a few nineteenth-century Chicagoans still influence American policy in the Middle East?
by Elesha Coffman
Posted February 1, 2002
JANUARY
Final Solution, Part II
The Nazis planned to obliterate Christianity, too, according to newly published Nuremberg documents.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted January 25, 2002
Tell Me a Story
The most helpful church history scholarship is both broad and narrative.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted January 18, 2002
State of the Fragmentation
If "society" denotes a group with mutual interests and common culture, the American Society of Church History almost doesn't qualify.
by Elesha Coffman
Posted January 11, 2002
Spurgeon's Epiphany
The event he recounted more than 280 times in his sermons first occurred on January 6, 1850.
by Mary Ann Jeffreys
Posted January 04, 2002
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