The First Bible Teachers: Did You Know?
Interesting and unusual facts about the church's first Bible interpreters

Augustine vs. Literalism
Why he was so fond of spiritual Scripture interpretation

Ancient Christian Commentary on Current Events: What Is War Good For?
What early church leaders thought of Christians and the military
Joel Elowsky

Baptism + Fire
Suffering may build character, but ultimately it's not about us.
By Mark Galli

Pakistani Christians Fight Against 'Apartheid' in Election System
"Under rule, citizens cannot vote for candidates outside their own religious affiliation."
Anto Akkara

Exorcizing the Desert
The stories of desert fathers' skirmishes with demons pointed to a larger struggle—and victory.
Diana Severance

The Dick Staub Interview: The Ascetic American Dream
David Matzko McCarthy, author of The Good Life: Genuine Christianity for the Middle Class, talks about the wealth and the poverty of the American middle class.

Eating the Supper of the Lamb in a Cool Whip Society
Albert Borgmann's post-technological feast.
by Andy Crouch

Scripture Saturation
To achieve holiness, believed the early monks, you must soak in the moral sense of the Word.
Patrick Henry Reardon

Ancient Christian Commentary on Current Events: What Is War Good For?
What early church leaders thought of Christians and the military
Joel Elowsky

The First Bible Teachers: Did You Know?
Interesting and unusual facts about the church's first Bible interpreters

The First Bible Teachers: From The Editor - The Founding Fathers We Never Knew
Chris Armstrong
By Chris Armstrong

Coming to a Screen Near You
"Cloud Ten moves beyond end-times fare, and The Count of Monte Cristo brings swashbuckling into a new millennium"
Douglas LeBlanc

A Postmodern Correspondance
Curtis Chang

NEWS: Episcopal Bishop Joins Others on Road to Rome
Rebekah Scott Schreffler

Loving Military Enemies
War does not exempt Christians from the second-greatest commandment.
By Stephen L. Carter

Hopeful Pessimism
The lessons of the civil rights movement turn out to be quite alien to liberal pieties.
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

The Mahatma
Gandhi unvarnished.
By Jean Bethke Elshtain

Christian History Corner: John Paul II's Canonization Cannon
Why and how this pope has made over 470 saints
Steven Gertz

The Prospect Terrified Me
Apolo Kivebulaya, a convert from Islam, bravely preached to witch doctors, hostile chieftains, and Pygmy tribes.
Steven Gertz

The Dazzling 'Dumb Ox'
His family thought he was throwing his life away. His classmates thought he was stupid. They didn't understand.
Ralph McInerny

The First Bible Teachers: Did You Know?
Interesting and unusual facts about the church's first Bible interpreters

Why the Reformers Read the Fathers

The African Apostles: Did You Know?
The rapidity of Africa's twentieth-century baptism was stunning. There's no better place to see the future of the global church.
by Chris Armstrong and Collin Hansen

Christian History Corner: The Habits of Highly Effective Bible Readers
What we can learn from the church fathers that will enrich our own Bible study
Christopher A. Hall

Christ's Kingdom and Paradise
What is the difference between the heavenly 'paradise' that Christ promised the thief on the cross and the kingdom of God?
Christopher A. Hall

Don't Read the Bible 'Alone'
Christopher Hall talks about how evangelicals should approach the church fathers
David Neff

Jesus in Beijing
by David Lyle Jeffrey

Christian History Corner: European Christianity's 'Failure to Thrive'
"Why Christendom, born with an imperial bang, is now fading away in an irrelevant whimper"
Collin Hansen

Church History's Biggest Hoax
Renaissance scholarship proved fatal for one of the medieval papacy's favorite claims.
Peter E. Prosser

Mythical Proportions
America is not so generous, free, and innocent as it imagines itself.
Myths America Lives By, reviewed by Greg Taylor

What Heresy?
The things Neo-Gnostic seekers find lacking in Christianity-experiential insight, mysticism, a direct link to God-are already there
Frederica Mathewes-Green

Editor's Bookshelf: Ground Rules
The Creed defines the game of faith without exhausting its excitement
David Neff

Exorcizing the Desert
The stories of desert fathers' skirmishes with demons pointed to a larger struggle—and victory.
Diana Severance

Antony and the Desert Fathers: Recommended Resources
Antony and the Desert Fathers
Mark Galli

Antony and the Desert Fathers: Christian History Interview - Discovering the Desert Paradox
What many found when they sought God in a seemingly God-forsaken landscape.
conversation with Belden Lane, Presbyterian professor of theology at St. Louis U

"Thanks, Da Vinci Code"
Tbe book sends us back to Christianity's founding fathers—and the Bible we share with them
Chris Armstrong

CT Classic: Listening to the Fifth Gospel
The sun-baked ruins of the Holy Land have a story to tell
David Neff

Weblog: Former Goshen.com Head Steps Out of the Crosswalk
Plus: The Jesus Seminar is apparently tired of Jesus, and other articles from media around the Internet.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Time Goes Gnostic
"Christmas, Carl Henry, more Gnostics, and other articles from online sources around the world"
Rob Moll

Christian History Corner: Breaking The Da Vinci Code
So the divine Jesus and infallible Word emerged out of a fourth-century power-play? Get real.
Collin Hansen

What Heresy?
The things Neo-Gnostic seekers find lacking in Christianity-experiential insight, mysticism, a direct link to God-are already there
Frederica Mathewes-Green

What a Difference a Reign Makes
Eusebius traces the Christian saga: from abuse to esteem in less than a decade.
Taken from Eusebius: The Church History © 1999 by Paul L. Maier. Published by Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids, MI. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.

The Link: Christian History Today
Combining Christian convictions and scholarly conventions, two historians create very different blends.
editors

The Problem of Eusebius
His work became the foundation for centuries of Christian scholarship. Was that foundation firm or hopelessly flawed?
Everett Ferguson

The Nativity of Christ
A Christmas sermon preached by Jerome.
By St. Jerome

The First Bible Teachers: Did You Know?
Interesting and unusual facts about the church's first Bible interpreters

Augustine's Key
The West's foremost theologian offered a single principle by which even the unlearned could unlock Scripture's meaning.
Gerald Bray

How We Christians Worship
From about the year 150, perhaps the most complete early description
Justin Martyr was a philosopher and defender of Christianity who was martyred in Rome in about 165. He was the author of First Apology, Second Apology, and Dialogue with Trypho the Jew.

Worship in the Early Church: A Gallery of Wordsmiths of Worship
by JAMES D. SMITH III Dr. James D. Smith III is pastor of Clairemont Emmanuel Baptist Church and adjunct professor of church history at Bethel Seminary-West, both in San Diego, California. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of Christian History.

Where Did Christians Worship?
by CHRISTOPHER HAAS Dr. Christopher Haas is assistant professor of history at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania, and author of Late Roman Alexandria (Johns Hopkins, forthcoming).

Christian History Corner: All Together Now
What qualifies as an ecumenical council anyway?
By Elesha Coffman | posted 9/1/00

The Celtic Way: From Patrick to Cuthbert
James Atkinson

The First Bible Teachers: Did You Know?
Interesting and unusual facts about the church's first Bible interpreters

The First Bible Teachers: From The Editor - The Founding Fathers We Never Knew
Chris Armstrong
By Chris Armstrong

The Habits of Highly Effective Bible Readers
What we can learn from the church fathers that will enrich our own Bible study.
A conversation with Christopher A. Hall

The Celtic Way: From Patrick to Cuthbert
James Atkinson

Why Paul Loved His Body
2 Corinthians doesn't teach that flesh and spirit are opposites, Michael Wittmer says.
By Ann Byle

How to Unmuzzle a Threshing Ox
Bridging the gender divide in the workplace.
by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen

Peter Jennings Goes Back to the Bible
The ABC news anchor talks about Monday's three-hour special, Jesus and Paul: The Word and the Witness.
Interview by Darrell Bock

What a Difference a Reign Makes
Eusebius traces the Christian saga: from abuse to esteem in less than a decade.
Taken from Eusebius: The Church History © 1999 by Paul L. Maier. Published by Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids, MI. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.

In God's Country
Those who believe that God rewards righteous nations have Orosius to admire and Augustine to dispute.
Elesha Coffman

Christian History Corner: Case of the Missing Relic
A piece of Jesus' cross is stolen from a Toronto cathedral—or is it?
Elesha Coffman

Jesus and Mama
The intercessor par excellence in country music
by Sam Torode

The Dick Staub Interview: Michael Card Discovers St. Peter
The musician decided to talk less in concert and more in print. Card says sinking is more important than walking on the water

Christian History Corner: John Paul II's Canonization Cannon
Why and how this pope has made over 470 saints
Steven Gertz

Christian History Corner: Case of the Missing Relic
A piece of Jesus' cross is stolen from a Toronto cathedral—or is it?
Elesha Coffman

How the Early Church Viewed Martyrs
Christians held a theology of martyrdom that gave them courage to endure.
William G. Bixler