When Christianity became state-sponsored under leaders such as Constantine and Theodosius, governments systematically ...

Ideas about resurrection had been developing for centuries before Jesus’ life, but his followers took them in new directions.

Mount Union Professor Nicole Johnson's book gives 'Faithful Witness in a Fractured World," with focus on how we got where we ...

This sect, which rejected Paul’s epistles and ... a complete break with Judean literature would have jeopardized the early Christians’ potential legal status. Paul’s thought prevailed ...

Newsweek reports that “Since Thursday, more than 1,000 people — including Christian minorities and Alawites, the sect to which Assad ... confirm that since early March, over 1,000 civilians ...

Johnson and Snarr also looked at the early church during "Pax Romana ... "Constantinian Dilemma," which tracks Christianity's evolution from a strange sect of outcasts, to the center of power ...

Syria’s new transitional government has been sworn in nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power and as the new authorities in Damascus work to bring back stability to the war-to ...

Nearly four months after the ousting of 24-year President Bashar al-Assad, Syria has announced a new government, kickstarting ...

The militias that control the Druse religious minority’s heartland in southwestern Syria have resisted the new government’s attempts to bring all armed groups under its control.

While certain elements and beliefs associated with Judaism and Christianity factor into the ... including a cult-like religious sect in the heart of the American Southwest. This group, led by ...