Ethnic and religious tensions ran high in Jesus' day too.

How I got by with a little help from my friends.

It took centuries for Christian martyrs to impact pagan society.

Henry Stanley did more than find Livingstone—he followed him.

Those closest to the remarkable explorer were often remarkable themselves.

Livingstone seemed unimpressed by the great cats—even after being attacked by one.

For centuries Christians East and West lived as strangers to one another. Then Catholics violated the Orthodox.

The tragic economics of the slave trade.

The Christian History Timeline

The Boxer Rebellion revealed the courage of missionaries—and the resentment they sparked.

It took some doing for Chinese Protestants to get free of missionary control.

Forty years after five missionaries lost their lives in the Ecuadorian jungle, the killers explain what really happened.

Angry colonists were rallied to declare independence and take up arms because of what they heard from the pulpit.

And why her persecution of Protestants failed

What was it like to be on the losing side of England's Reformation?

What happened to the people who worked most closely with him?

John Knox provoked rulers, incited riots, and inspired a reformation in Scotland.