(The Conversation) — From the Civil War to the Cold War, existential fears have fueled claims that America is a Christian nation, a historian of US Christianity explains. (The Conversation) — Amid ...

King Æthelberht of Kent became the first Christian king of Anglo-Saxon England and one of the most influential rulers of the early medieval period. Recognized as Bretwalda, the overlord of the English ...

An excerpt from 30 Key Moments in the History of Christianity. The story is told of how the Armenian king Trdat (also known as Tiridates III) was physically transformed into a wild boar as a form of ...

In the year 112, a Roman governor in modern-day Turkey had his first encounter with members of a strange religious cult called “Christiani.” The governor had heard reports the cult followed an obscure ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many people picture the early Christian church as looking much like a modern worship service, but the historical record tells a ...

This series tells the epic story of the rise of Christianity. The series explore the life and death of Jesus, and the men and women whose belief, conviction, and martyrdom created the religion we now ...

It begins with the music: a late 1990s rap song. Then someone appears on screen, moving slowly into a pose that can only be called deeply, theatrically serious. Then comes the reveal: The video fades ...