Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the death of Saint Columbanus, the first ordination of a Luther ...

Christian history begins with the life and death of Jesus Christ and continues with the formation of the early Christian church, Emperor Constantine's Holy Roman Empire and the great schism into ...

My greatest fear is that we will fail to learn from history—specifically, the role the Christian Church has played in fostering antisemitism, up to and including the Holocaust. Religious institutions, ...

Events from this week in Christian history include the First Covenant of Scotland, the death of Fenton Hort, and Charlie Kirk ...

In the development of the discipline of church history in the United States, few scholars played a more important role than the Swiss-born, German-educated immigrant Philip Schaff. Known best for his ...

J. H. Kurtzs The History of Church is a comprehensive and scholarly examination of the development of Christian church history, covering various periods and theological developments. Kurtzs writing is ...

Pope Leo XIV marks a high point of his his first foreign trip to Turkey with a pilgrimage to the site where early Christian ...

Across the last few decades in the U.S., we have experienced widespread debates and even violent conflicts over American history. Battles like these typically erupt during times of social change, when ...

Although Diana Butler Bass doesn’t refer to Jaroslav Pelikan’s definition of tradition—“the living faith of the dead”—her People’s History is a reflection of that definition. Writing for ...

Pope Leo XIV has joined Orthodox patriarchs and ecumenical leaders in Turkey to commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea ...

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 ...