history

The 2014 sighting of a small, underwater basilica just a hundred feet from the ancient walls of Nicaea (modern Iznik) posed a series of intriguing questions.

Beyond the tools of expression of these handcrafted buildings, the most powerful baseline continuity is the purpose of all the effort of their builders: To come closer to God.

Martin Marty cast a vision that transcends the foibles of religious life.

This account traces theology in England from early sources through the Reformation into a detailed account of the shaping of belief amid the rise of modernity.

In addition to his brief ministry in the Diocese of Fond du Lac in the 1880s, Joseph René Vilatte was, at various points, a Catholic, an Old Catholic, a Methodist, a Presbyterian, and a Congregationalist.

Those who attended the mission throughout agreed unanimously that the people of Washington experienced a spiritual revival, conducted without undue or fanatic emotion, such as never before had been offered them, and they also are in agreement that “it can happen in the Episcopal Church.”

I decided to walk my talk this Christmastide by making it to one church service on each of the happy Twelve Days: mostly the...

In The Everlasting Man, G.K. Chesterton once argued that “the next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it.”...

Theologians need to be aware of literature in many languages in the broadest possible sense. Biographies, in particular, can be instructive. Sometimes reading an...

The Rev. Lawrence Crumb reviews Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History.