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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.

Bernard of Clairvaux was a tough act to follow—yet thousands of Christians walked his path.

350 years ago, George Fox launched a powerful, peace-loving movement with an assault on established Christianity.

Those who seek to define the separation of church and state should also consider the separation of 2002 and 1789.

Christian gyms and shopping malls may be new, but full-service megachurches are positively medieval.

Juan Diego could soon join a long line of pious, exemplary, and quite possibly imaginary Catholic heroes.

The Nazis planned to obliterate Christianity, too, according to newly published Nuremberg documents.

The most helpful church history scholarship is both broad and narrative.

If "society" denotes a group with mutual interests and common culture, the American Society of Church History almost doesn't qualify.

Firm belief in resurrection hasn't kept Christians from caring—and arguing—about what happens to the bodies of the dead.

The modern Olympics, though hardly Christian, hail from an era when athleticism was next to godliness.

Many non- and semi-Christian groups laid claim to the West, but none more successfully than the Mormons.

A new CD-ROM offers quick access to the facts of church history, plus interactive quizzes.

Evangelizing on-the-go Americans only seems harder than it used to be.

In the twelfth century, an intellectual challenge to church authority proved much more dangerous than a sex scandal.

Washington's struggle to sell the American image overseas illustrates how sharply today's reality differs from seventeenth-century ideals.

C.S. Lewis and six of his literary friends open their doors to students and researchers at Wheaton College's impressive new Wade Center facility.

Documentary on "School" skips religious history, giving a skewed account of American education.

As speculations mount regarding the significance of recent events in God's plan for the end of the world, voices from the past urge restraint.