News&Reporting

UPN's "Amish In the City" shows us our modern selves in a mirror that is positively medieval.

Here is our review of "the Christian history that made the stories that made the news."

The Origins of New Years' Resolutions, and One Famous List

Where did this tuba-playing, kettle-wielding social force come from, and what's it all about?

Mel Gibson's movie raises again the question: How much can we know historically about Jesus' life and times?

Thousands want Mel to make his next movie about a famous medieval friar.

Sixty-four years ago, the Roman Catholic Church consecrated its first black African bishop. Is it time now for the next step?

Tony Blair's spin-doctors worried when he recently "outed" himself as a Christian. But what impact has Christianity really had on our leaders?

A gripping new book details the first American missionary hostage crisis, over 100 years ago.

The roots of a resurgent practice, plus 14 books for further study.

Some observers are upset with Tony Blair's recent public avowal of faith. But what impact has Christianity really had on our leaders?

War's reports deluge us every hour. Why should we read the "old news" of Christian history?

Tolkien wanted his Lord of the Rings to echo the "Lord of Lords"—but do we have ears to hear?

Anglican liberals are fretting, conservatives rejoicing, and all are scrambling to their history books: whence this new evangelical force on the world scene?

Why should Wesley's 300th birthday be a red-letter day on this side of the ocean?

A historian considers the evidence of the Crusades and the Inquisition.

These days it's a triumph when a movie is simply inoffensive. But we can do better than that!

Though open to frightening ethical abuse, genetics has been a Christian vocation since Gregor Mendel did his famous pea-plant experiments in the mid-nineteenth century.

Some words just don't mean what they used to.