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 ...

Authors discuss the history of LDS temple garments, including the fact that sleeveless ones were proposed nearly a hundred ...

Women's History Month is a great time to celebrate the "mothers" of our Christian church. Until recently, few realized that early female believers shaped our church's future no less than their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Samuel Adams's book is important on two counts: he focuses on the once-neglected period of the Second Temple, and he asks economic questions rather than theological-spiritual ones.

Prince Vladimir I of Kiev is a fratricide, a rapist, a drunk, and a heathen. Still, he has his moments of quiet contemplation. During one such mood, Vladimir begins to question his pagan faith. He ...