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 ...

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 ...

An international team of archaeologists has revealed a "remarkable" early Christian church in Egypt, thought to be more than 1,600 years old, that contains a set of "surprising" human remains. The ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an Armenian church dating back almost 2,000 years, making it the oldest structure of its kind in the country and one of the oldest in the world. Germany's ...

Now here’s a divine development. Just ahead of the holidays, archaeologists have “digitally unrolled” a 1,800-year-old silver amulet to decipher an inscription that’s being hailed as the oldest known ...

Pope Leo XIV will join the leader of the world's Orthodox Christians Friday to celebrate 1,700 years since one of the early ...

When it was discovered a decade ago, the 4th-century basilica of Nicaea was totally submerged, its importance to early ...

The apostles followed Jesus and after his crucifixion went their separate ways, helping to found the early Christian church. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 of Christianity (HC) area studies past theological reflection on the faith and practice of the Church, especially in early and medieval Christianity. The HC area strives to appreciate ...

In the last chapter of his book Promise and Poison: The Story of Emerging Christianity, John Van Hagen writes: My purpose in writing this book is to present the efforts of emerging Christianity to ...

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 ...