Nuns wandered sprawling gardens as caretakers tended to blossoming flowers. Inside, some nuns visited with family members in a small room. At least that’s what experts think life was like at Beaumont ...

The history of Christian celibacy is more complicated than we’d like to think. Lately, Christians have cast their minds and social media musings back to the early church on the topics of singleness ...

Why evangelicals are connecting with the early church as they move into the 21st century. Last spring, something was stirring under the white steeple of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. A ...

Christian faith proclaims that Jesus was God’s divine son. But church historians have long known that certain Jewish followers of Christ, in the early decades after his death, regarded him as merely ...

The history and legacy of Mark is revisited in African tradition and contested in Western historiography in this thorough account of the saint's life and influence. Largely regarded as a shadow figure ...

Women's History Month is a great time to celebrate the "mothers" of our Christian church. Until recently, few realized that early female believers shaped our church's future no less than their ...

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