St. Patrick's Day is, for many, a day to wear green and enjoy perhaps one too many pints of Guinness. Most people know that St. Patrick was a real man. But fewer know about his incredible missionary ...

About 5 miles from my apartment, there is an old church that was built on a fifth-century Roman mausoleum in what is now the small town of Saint-Prex on Lake Geneva. It is one of the oldest churches ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A metal detectorist working near Brandenburg, Germany, uncovered a bronze wheel cross pendant dated to the 10 th or 11 th century C.E. The pendant ...

The earliest known evidence of Christianity north of Italy was recently unveiled by archaeologists, who call the discovery one of the "most important testimonies of early Christianity." The artifact, ...

Puritans, the religious fanatics of the 17th century Massachusetts Bay Colony, were part of a political movement that flopped. Centuries later, the Trump administration is institutionalizing Christian ...

In his new book, Twelve Churches: An Unlikely History of the Buildings that Made Christianity, Fergus Butler-Gallie attempts to do just that but on a global scale. The 12 churches in the book are from ...