If only CBS had chosen a true heroine for Black History Month …

Mass suicides, like last week's in Uganda, may be a newer tactic, but the temptation to predict, even force, the coming of kingdom bliss is not.

A fellow resister of the Nazis, editor, and biographer dies half a century after his subject and companion.

The diaries of a frontier missionary couple reveal starkly differing perspectives.

While not for dummies or complete idiots, a new guide introduces church history to the beginner.

The month and day of Christ's birth have been hotly disputed for centuries.

As the Roman Catholic patron saint of politicians, Thomas More is not quite a model for all seasons.

Donne's morbid tendencies were neither unfounded nor without an attendant hope.

The Mather men followed the faith-and career paths-of their fathers.

Who were the early church's 'desert mothers'?

Christianity Today's annual book awards contain some choice history selections

The Christian History staff's field trip to see the Dead Sea Scrolls

Gwen Shamblin's teachings sound an awful lot like some in the early church—and not in a good way.

Reconsidering Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant.

Is Thomas More a saintly model?

‘Christian colleges are as strong as they’ve been since the 1920s,’ says historian William Ringenberg. But there are challenges on the horizon.

As rumors of Pope John Paul II's retirement circulate, it's worth remembering the story of the last pope to resign

Two recently translated books recount searches for recapturing Pentecost.

The medieval church was deadly serious about eliminating heretical Cathars.