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 ...

The earliest days of Christianity are hazy—relatively few written records survive from this era, and religious artifacts are ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Didn’t Augustine have a weird theology of sex?” This question was posed to me by a friend at dinner last week, after a discussion about the Confessions, and not unfairly. Augustine, she pointed out, ...

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 ...

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 ...

An international team of archaeologists has revealed a "remarkable" early Christian church in Egypt, thought to be more than 1,600 years old, that contains a set of "surprising" human remains. The ...

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 ...

Danish archaeologists recently unearthed dozens of medieval graves, shedding light on how disease and hardship shaped life in early Christian Denmark. Officials from the Moesgaard Museum in Beder, ...