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.

The first Christians had very specific ideas about who they would meet in the afterlife.

Why concerned parents should read the 17th-century Moravian educational reformer Jan Amos Comenius.

Emotions have historically run high as Christians have staked their claims to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

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.

In the Anabaptist tradition, a Christian must never fight back.

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.

Muslim response to the Crusades showed jihad in action, and while the grievances have changed, the rhetoric still echoes.

The Christian tradition includes few female history-writers but plenty of female history-makers.