Christian History Corner

Getting the Word Out
An exhibit at the Huntington Library shows how Bibles big and small gave power to the people
Romanticism Gone to Seed—Part II
Have the holiness and Pentecostal movements really been hyper-vertical and anti-domestic?
Is Speaking Truth a Hate Crime?
Hate laws making their way through U.S. and British governments highlight the need for peaceful yet critical Christian witness. A 12th-century abbot leads the way.
The 'Assumed' Fate of Jesus' Mother
Roman Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Assumption on Sunday. What's up with that?
Revisiting the Pagan Olympic Games
New scholarship on the ancient Olympics reminds Christians why Emperor Theodosius outlawed the event so many centuries ago.
A God's-Eye View of Gutenberg
The rise, fall, and redemption of the Father of the Information Age.
The Friends of The Christ of The Passion
Popular interest in the person of Jesus is widening to include his closest friends. But who were these people, really?
The Prohibition of Gay Marriage
We can learn from the defeat of American Christian activism's greatest legislative victory.
All of Christian History in 6 Hours
This audio tour de force is strong meat for a mature Christian audience.
The Amish Come Knocking
UPN's Amish In the City shows us our modern selves in a mirror that is positively medieval.
For All the Saints
A new book reminds us to get our heads and hearts together, in the company of the cloud of witnesses.
The Pagan-Buster
How a brilliant monk laid the groundwork for Christian Europe
For All the Saints
A new book reminds us to get our heads and hearts together, in the company of the cloud of witnesses.
To Spank or Not to Spank?
A 6th-century abbot and a group of 17th-century Calvinist divines weigh in on the issue
Testify!
A glimpse inside the world of holiness testimony, through the story of an ex-slave woman evangelist.
Holy America, Phoebe!
It swept across church lines, transforming America's urban landscape with its rescue missions and storefront churches. Yet today, the holiness movement and its charismatic woman leader are all but forgotten.
Do Nigerian Miracle Ministries Discredit the Faith?
The spiritual dynamism of West African Christianity is now well known even in the West. Do credulity-stretching, highly publicized miracles discredit what God is doing in that region?
Torture Then and Now
The abuse at Abu Ghraib and the witness of the Christian past.
Should We Fight for Under God?
The right approach to these two little words may not be obvious.
Why does Easter's date wander?
And why the Eastern Orthodox Easter can differ from the Western by weeks.

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