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Story Behind

Why Do We Have Christmas Trees?

The history behind evergreens, ornaments, and holiday gift giving.

Edwin and Jennifer Woodruff Tait
CHRISTMAS

The Real 12 Days of Christmas

Celebrating Christ's birth with saints of the faith during the actual Christmas season.

Edwin and Jennifer Woodruff Tait
How We Got Our Bible: Christian History Timeline

A brief chronology of how we got 'The Good Book'

Philip W. Comfort

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John Wycliffe: Bible Translator
, 1983

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And other facts about Bible translation that transformed the world.

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Ashes to Ashes

An early tradition of pre-Lenten repentance developed into our modern practice of Ash Wednesday.

Jennifer Woodruff Tait
When Disaster Brought Church Unity

The night Constantinople fell to the Ottoman armies may be the one time that the church was one.

James R. Edwards
Reviews

Bishops in Fact If Not in Name

Lisa Bitel introduces us to two medieval women who transcended traditional roles.

Jennifer Hevelone-Harper
CLASSIC FAITH FOR MODERN TIMES

The Light to Our Paths

Prefaces to English Bibles celebrate the Bible as God's gift to believers.

Leland Ryken
Peering into the Cloister

Where shaving was accompanied by psalm-singing and bloodletting was more frequent than bathing.

Chris Armstrong
The Monks Did It

If we move beyond a piecemeal approach to medieval Christianity, we can mine the rich vein of its spiritual, intellectual, and practical resources.

Chris Armstrong
Was Easter Borrowed from a Pagan Holiday?

The historical evidence contradicts this popular notion.

Anthony McRoy

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Alexander Campbell
This 18th century Irishman became one of the founders of the Disciples of Christ and the Church of Christ.
Nikolaus von Zinzendorf
Christ-centered Moravian "brother"
Antony of Padua
"The hammer of heretics"
Teresa of Avila
Carmelite mystic and feisty administrator
Hildegard of Bingen
Benedictine abbess, visionary, and writer
Catherine of Siena
Mystic and political activist
Thomas à Kempis
Author of the most popular devotional classic
Thomas Becket
Murdered archbishop of Canterbury
Boniface
Apostle of Germany
John Huss
Pre-Reformation Reformer
Cyril and Methodius
Apostles to the Slavs
Francis of Assisi
Mystical founder of the Franciscans
Bernard of Clairvaux
Medieval reformer and mystic
Dominic
Founder of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans)
Ignatius of Loyola
Founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)
Joan of Arc
Teenage war hero with visions
John Wycliffe
Medieval "protestant"
Geoffrey Chaucer
Medieval England's greatest storyteller
Dante Alighieri
Worldly creator of divine verse
Charlemagne
Christian ruler of a "holy" empire
Gregory the Great
"Servant of the Servants of God"
Innocent III
Warring "Vicar of Christ"
Justinian I and Theodora I
Greatest Byzantine
Louis IX
Saintly king of France
The Venerable Bede
Father of English history
Nicholas Copernicus
Revolutionary astronomer
Anselm
Reluctant bishop with a remarkable mind
Thomas Aquinas
The brilliant "dumb ox"

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