By Chrissy Stroop On Friday, August 7, the Department of Homeland Security announced to state and local...
Christianity
Trace Christianity from a Jewish movement in the Roman world into a global religion shaped by theology, worship, institutions, dissent, missionary expansion, political power, and the lived experiences of believers across two millennia.
Although Constantine is acclaimed as the first emperor to embrace Christianity, he was not technically the first...
Christian nationalists are far less likely to be vaccinated than other groups, but some evangelical leaders are...
The gospels were produced from c.70 CE to perhaps 100 CE. Introduction The New Testament contains four...
The fusing of Christian nationalism and violent extremism on display during the attack on the U.S. Capitol...
The history of how European Christians spread their message, using key texts from around the world. Introduction...
Since the 8th and 9th centuries, these early missions were called ‘Celtic Christianity’. Introduction The Hiberno-Scottish mission...
They are aggressively patriarchal, literalist in their reading of sacred texts, and assiduous in pursuit of Christian...
Tangible evidence about Christianity’s spread from Rome to Canterbury and from Ireland to the Court of Charlemagne....
It was initially a Jewish message and so the followers of Jesus took his teachings to the...
The significance of Constantinople as the place of the imagined event of the death of Arius. Introduction...
Reading the gospels as history without the criteria we apply to the reading of all ancient history...
Although QAnon’s conspiracy theories are baseless, the dangers the movement poses are very real. Parker Neff was...
The Great Awakening swept the English-speaking world, as religious energy vibrated between the U.K. and the American...
Christianity had developed as a religious idea in Roman Palestine and slowly spread throughout the Empire. By...
Their mission was not only to convert people but especially kings and rulers, thereby making the people...
After World War II, conservative Protestants rejected the separatist stance and began calling themselves evangelicals. Introduction In...
Little if any direct archeological evidence exists concerning Abraham. Introduction In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Abraham is a...
Christianity began in first century C.E. Jerusalem as a Jewish sect, but quickly spread throughout the Roman...
The problem is that rural America doesn’t even understand itself and will never listen to anyone outside...
Jewish Christians predominated in the movement of early Christianity. They bore the brunt of persecution from their...
Hildegard of Bingen was called the “Sibyl of the Rhine” because of her apocalyptic visions. Introduction Hildegard...
A rough genealogy of the way in which the central narrative of Buddhism ended up in a...
The spread of Christianity in the Early Middle Ages (from the fifth to tenth centuries) marked the...
Today’s fundamentalist Catholics find themselves embroiled in what they consider a war for the soul of their...
For American Christians — especially those privileged to hold political, economic, and social power — these are...
Saint Gregory the Illuminator or Enlightener established Christianity as the official religion of ancient Armenia. By Mark...
Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Christianity has heard the term ‘Church Fathers’ but far less...
Where does the ‘religion’ end and the ‘populism’ begin? Ben Ryan speaks of the use of Christianity...
Since the early days of monasticism, the presence of nuns led to restrictions that limited contact between...