Saint Valentine is commemorated in the Anglican Communion and the Lutheran Churches on February 14. Introduction Saint...
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The biblical story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt is also a historical tale of reparations after...
Christianity followed an old pattern when it developed its own rules of behavior for “the Christian life.”...
The Alliance Defending Freedom has been laying the groundwork to end legal abortion for years. But that’s...
The Chronicle of Widukind, from around 970, relates how Harald ordered the rejection of the old gods....
Women are presented for the most part using both Jewish and Graeco-Roman concepts of the social construction...
We understand these letters to be circumstantial. They were not written as systematic theology or as treatises...
Pliny’s letter to Trajan is significant as one of the earliest descriptions of the Christian movement from...
God has entered the lunatic picture. And lo, the permutations of anti-mask/vax/reason/science crackpottery have been many, from world-wide...
The ‘Awakenings’ all resulted from powerful preaching that gave listeners a sense of personal guilt, their sin,...
American evangelicalism has had several “beginnings”, each contributing to the shape of present-day evangelicalism. By Dr. Charles...
By Chrissy Stroop On Friday, August 7, the Department of Homeland Security announced to state and local...
Teachers are concerned about the impact it will eventually have on curriculum and classroom teaching. In the...
Though their reproductive choices were still unacceptably limited, pre-modern Christian women did have some options. Introduction The...
For nearly 2,000 years, the mother of Jesus has been viewed as an exemplar by different Christian...
The political alliance between American evangelicals and Israel’s right wing may have peaked during the Trump administration....
Original writers of biblical texts believed the end times were happening in THEIR time and were preparing...
Disaffected young evangelicals and those who left the church describe an out-of-touch institution not in line with their political beliefs. Introduction The...
Growing numbers of young evangelicals and ‘Exvangelicals’ are pro-LGBTQ, support #BlackLivesMatter – or are fed up with...
‘In God We Trust’ became the national motto of the US on July 30, 1956. Since then,...
Although Constantine is acclaimed as the first emperor to embrace Christianity, he was not technically the first...
We can find no earlier evidence than Mark of a story of betrayal or this individual. Introduction...
Why the biblical reference in Revelation should be considered in its first-century context. By Dr. Eric M....
Although many modern people tend to see ‘magic’ and ‘religion’ as separate, magic was actually integral to...
He saw the history of Christianity as one of development, progress, and gradual change as a modernist...
In the context of theology, the word liberal does not refer to political liberalism, and it should...
Despite opposition from the early church, dance was an integral part of Christian devotion for many centuries...
In 90 CE, a bishop of Rome, Clement (d. 99 CE), claimed that Rome was the city...
The gospels were produced from c.70 CE to perhaps 100 CE. Introduction The New Testament contains four...
The legacy of the idea of a universal church carries on, directly or indirectly, in today’s Catholic...