Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'The Nativity,' circa 1406-10, by Lorenzo Monaco Heritage Images/Hulton Archive via Getty Images Every year on Christmas, ...

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 ...

When most people think of Heaven, they imagine clouds, angels, and golden gates in the sky. But early Christian mystics didn’t see Heaven as a place you reached after death, they saw it as a spiritual ...

Some early Christians believed Thomas was not just a disciple but the literal twin of Jesus. Ancient texts describe him as identical in appearance and possessing secret knowledge others were forbidden ...

How the early church’s example of public witness helps us avoid the extremes of triumphalism and retreat. Early on in my reading and study of early Christianity, I was struck by an assertion from an ...

You remember, last time, we were discussing the Roman army as a force in ancient civilization, a moving force which helped transmit the ideas, the concepts, the religions, in the early centuries of ...

THE RELIGION GUY’S ANSWER: During the formative first centuries of Christian history there were some 40 texts in circulation that could be considered “gospels,” according to one scholar, while another ...

Distinguishing speculation from historical fact. Hundreds of articles and scores of books have been written in the last 150 years seeking to establish what the early (pre-Constantinian) church thought ...

Greg Sheridan’s new book on Christianity is part history lesson, part cultural commentary, and part Christian witness. It proposes that Christians in the West can learn a great deal from early ...

Many skeptics assert that the early Christians believed in miracles because theirs was a primitive, prescientific culture where people were ignorant of the course of nature. As such, it is argued, ...

What is the account that we get from Acts about the early history of the Christian church? The Book of Acts records or reports that there was a special event that took place at Pentecost, which would ...