A historian considers the evidence of the Crusades and the Inquisition.

How America got its favorite summer tradition.

For generations, missionary doctors have healed body and soul in Africa.

Why Christendom, born with an imperial bang, is now fading away in an irrelevant whimper.

These days it's a triumph when a movie is simply inoffensive. But we can do better than that!

Have archaeological discoveries like the James ossuary served or obscured the quest to verify the Bible?

Though open to frightening ethical abuse, genetics has been a Christian vocation since Gregor Mendel did his famous pea-plant experiments in the mid-nineteenth century.

Some words just don't mean what they used to.

So you've got an evangelistic pop-culture act ready for prime time. Here's a historical pause for reflection.

Pop culture has been coming to a church near you for hundreds of years.

If the looming war breaks out, 350,000 Iraqi Christians will be caught in a West-East conflict eerily similar to 4th-century events.

Why heresy trials will have to do, until something better comes along.

Why Muslims, Jews, and Christians still yearn for their holy places.

A little-read book of the Bible reminds us of the astonishing intimacy we enjoy with Christ

Evangelicals need this grandfather figure more than ever.

In the wake of a basketball scandal at a prominent Christian university, we take time to remember the Christian roots of college athletics.

The nation's history explains why the current conflict succumbs to, yet simultaneously transcends, the stereotype of African tribal wars.

The modern Anglican mission to Iraq met with initial success, but its story sounds a cautionary note.

Some enjoyable ways to get the most out of the work of church historians.