How a struggling soul built a bridge to Christ for those caught in the world's snares.

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

Sometimes our Christian heritage must be overcome, not celebrated.

Millions of Americans have spent two hours listening to the characters in Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ speaking in an exotic, unfamiliar tongue. Yet not all find Aramaic so alien.

Lost amid the celebration of Patrick is the important story of Benedict, the father of western monasticism.

A modern British journalist gives us timely words from yesterday's sinner-saints.

Left Behind is neither the first nor the last word on last things.

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

France's peculiar aversion to public religiosity is rooted in a sordid history of sectarian violence.

Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ gives Christians the chance to disavow a shameful history of anti-Semitism.

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

When we seek answers to churchly and societal issues in the Bible alone, citing the Reformation principle of sola scriptura, we are actually contradicting the Reformers.

What do Islamic sharia law and the colonial Massachusetts' Puritan experiment have in common?

Joan Kroc's $1.5 billion bequest to the Salvation Army promises to boost its admirable outreach, but history suggests new challenges and temptations lie ahead.

Evangelicals need this grandfather-figure more than ever

Evangelical revival in the land of the liberal Brahmins may not be as historically odd as we suppose

What we can learn from the church fathers that will enrich our own Bible study

"The origins of new years' resolutions, and one famous list"

So the divine Jesus and infallible Word emerged out of a fourth-century power-play? Get real.