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 ...

In an age of spiritual abuse scandals, the early church offers a positive model of pastoral authority. Americans buy millions of self-help books each year, but we, the children of (post)modernity, are ...

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

New research recently unveiled in Rome suggests women had a greater role in the early church's ministries and liturgies than previously thought and were present at church altars as deacons, priests ...

After 700 years underwater, Türkiye’s ancient Basilica of Nicaea has emerged, revealing the roots of early Christianity and a ...

Spencer W. McBride explains the historical and spiritual significance of the newly acquired documents to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. McBride is a historian with the Joseph Smith ...

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 ...

Tuesday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released a hefty but easy-to-ready volume on early church history as the first in a four-part series. Coming in at almost 600 pages of text, ...

'Saints: The Standard of Truth' was released to the public Sept. 4 in print, eBook and for free online in 14 languages. It's the first in a four-volume collection titled 'Saints: The Story of the ...

Because most of history relies heavily on literary records written by men, discovering reliable historical data about Christian women can be challenging. This search is further complicated by the fact ...

Just ask former Baptist Steve Ray, whose journey to the Catholic Church was helped by careful study of the Early Church Fathers. “Surprise, surprise!” Steve wrote. “We were not prepared for what we ...