Standing Alone for Unity
The attempt to bring European Christians together forced one reformer, Caspar Schwenckfeld, straight to the fringe.
1 Book Everyone Should Buy
131 Christians Everyone Should Know is like a super-concentrated, portable version of Christian History—which isn’t surprising, considering that we wrote it.
No Humbug
A Christmas Carol remains the quintessential holiday story, but why?
Advent—Close Encounters of a Liturgical Kind
‘Tis the season when even the free-ranging revivalist pulls up a chair to the table of historic liturgy
‘Tell Billy Graham the Jesus People Love Him.’
How evangelism’s senior statesman helped the hippies tune in, turn on to God.
I’m Dreaming of a Victorian Christmas
An ageless story reminds us of the values the Victorians can still teach us
The Christian DNA of Modern Genetics
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
From Swamped Creatures to Separated Brethren
Non-Catholics’ spiritual status improved dramatically from Unam Sanctam to Vatican II, but where are we now?
An ‘Ordinary Saint’ in Wartime
William Wilberforce saw two long charitable campaigns through, even in war’s distracting shadow
Dig that Billy Graham Cat!
How the grand old man of evangelism helped create Christian youth culture in the zoot-suit era