The Young and the Zealous How do you change the course of the nation's future? Youth for Christ had the answer: Win over the next generation.
Bruce L. Shelley | October 1, 2006
Modernism's Moses "The question," conservative J. Gresham Machen once said of Harry Emerson Fosdick, "is not whether Dr. Fosdick is winning men, but whether the thing he is winning them to is Christianity."
Bruce L. Shelley | August 8, 2008
Counter-Culture Christianity A look at the radical utopian communities that sprang up across the early frontier.
Bruce L. Shelley | January 1, 1995
325 The First Council of Nicaea At stake in the church's first general council was the simplest, yet most profound, question: Who is Jesus Christ?
Bruce L. Shelley | October 1, 1990
Is Christmas Pagan? Long before Constantine, Christians found ways to redeem local cultures and salvage those elements that naturally pointed to Christ.
Bruce L. Shelley | December 6, 1999
The Bishop at Work Augustine saw himself not as a saint, but as a pastor with a job to do.
Bruce L. Shelley | July 1, 2000
The Emperor’s New Religion The story of early Christianity’s most famous—and most controversial—convert.
Bruce L. Shelley | January 1, 1998
A Pastor's Heart Even in the midst of his campaign for reform, Hus never forgot the faithful flock back home.
Bruce L. Shelley | October 1, 2000