Church History

Historian Molly Worthen studies dynamic leaders, eager followers, and their shared efforts to “consecrate a new reality.”

A new book recovers the significance of the church father’s geographic and cultural roots.

Responses to our May/June article about the Nicene Creed and other stories.

Jonathan Linebaugh’s pastoral, accessible invitation to Scripture is rightly focused on Christ but uncertain in its audience and too quiet about the church.

No institution is above scrutiny, but the Trump administration’s planned overhaul could obscure the work of God in American history.

Christian misconceptions around miscarriage are not new, but need to change.

In the heyday of eugenics, too many Christians lost their moral and theological bearings.

Black and white Christians in America could have been allies in the fight for life across racial and partisan lines. Post-Dobbs, can we learn from recent history?

Biblical hope is not selfish, aggressive, or complacent. It’s not naive or scared of suffering. It rests on the foundation of Jesus Christ.

Beth Allison Barr challenges the narrative that women have never exercised church authority.