Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the first official bonfire of the vanities, Answers in Genesis suing Kentucky and a bishop setting up a mission in the Congo ...

A federal judge has ordered the release of a five-year-old boy and his father who were detained by federal immigration agents from their driveway in suburban Minneapolis and sent to a detention center ...

State Board of Education members criticized the publishing errors and postponed their vote on the agency’s request until their next meeting.

Debates over what constitutes the American literary canon—and whether Bible excerpts should be a part of it—erupted on ...

The two basic characteristics of the Nephilim, namely that they were children of the so-called Sons of God and that they were fallen ones, are attested to in other versions of the same anciet ...

A new, non-peer-reviewed report argues that Egypt’s Great Pyramid may be far older than the familiar Old Kingdom timeline, proposing an age in the order of tens of thousands of years. The claim hinges ...

The new information pushes the presence of the bacterium Treponema pallidum back at least 3,000 years from what was ...

The Bible-thumping former politician claimed a 1787 document proves the U.S. a "Christian nation." He got the facts ...

From a garden at the Holy Sepulchre to new dates for the Dead Sea Scrolls, new research is offering detailed glimpses into biblical stories. The shrine that houses the traditional burial place of ...

"Monday Night Football" has been a mainstay on primetime television for more than 50 years, becoming one of the longest-running, most-watched network series in history. The cultural staple premiered ...

For all the wrapping paper, lights, and gingerbread cookies, Christmas has been around far longer than toy catalogs and peppermint mochas. Its history involves unexpected inventions and bits of trivia ...

Far from the baby-cheeked cherubs of Renaissance art, they were fiery beings who inspired fear. In ancient Judaism and early Christianity, angels were portrayed as powerful beings who guarded the ...