In “Rome’s Age of Revolution,” Tim Whitmarsh argues that movements advanced by Augustus and Paul the Apostle, far from being ...

Christianity includes a wide number of traditions that share a belief in Jesus in common, and differ greatly beyond that point. The way they worship and even their interpretations of the scripture ...

Matthew Avery Sutton’s impressive new history is insightful, helpful, colorful—and incomplete. Writing a comprehensive history of American Christianity is a mammoth undertaking that few historians ...

Christianity was brought to Japan by St. Francis Xavier in 1549, attracted more than 300,000 converts within the next fifty years and, according to the standard histories, was completely exterminated ...

Senator-elect James Talarico’s progressive Christianity seemed to resonate for many in a state whose politics and culture ...

People find it hard to believe that Christianity had such an inauspicious beginning in A.D. 33 with the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. He had only a handful of followers — many of them poor ...

If there’s one thing to which human history overwhelmingly testifies, it is that we are fervently religious creatures. Among the rocks and rubble of human cultures throughout the millennia is evidence ...

Christianity has changed the world in so many significant ways, many of which we are probably not even aware of on a daily basis. In his new book "Unimaginable: What our World Would be Like without ...

Christianity Today republished an article Friday that had earlier been removed amid backlash for speculating on the sexuality of the late Elisabeth Elliot, wife of the famous martyred missionary Jim ...