What a church does in remembrance of Christ says a lot about its history and identity.

The most exciting adventure at St. Paul's Cathedral would be a time-traveling jaunt through its history.

The men who seized the Bounty nearly destroyed themselves while trying to create an earthly paradise. Then one of them discovered the Bible.

A quick look at recent history-themed tomes, travel guides, and a timeline.

A new documentary for The History Channel explores the apostle's tumultuous life and fantastic legacy—without skepticism.

A quick overview of iconoclasm, from the early church to the Taliban.

Tracing Christian roots in the Olympics.

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

A historian's look at Byzantine lists reveals the workings of the Eastern mind and a new way to study religion in culture.

The medieval church was deadly serious about heretics like the Cathars. Author Stephen O'Shea, on the other hand, is only too kind.

A piece of the true cross has been stolen in Toronto—but how did it get there in the first place?

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.

If anyone should be named patron saint of botched elections, ironically, it's Chad.

Jan Hus's ideas were so sound, it's amazing they were ever considered revolutionary.

I enjoyed William and Randy Petersen's 100 Christian Books That Changed the Century, but I would have picked a slightly different list.

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.

Gladiator sets the tone in Rome pretty accurately but stumbles on lots of historical details.

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.