In the last chapter of his book Promise and Poison: The Story of Emerging Christianity, John Van Hagen writes: My purpose in writing this book is to present the efforts of emerging Christianity to ...

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 ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The conventional view of a unique early Christian building dating to ...

Baptistry wall painting of a procession of women from the Christian building at Dura-Europos (ca. 240-245 CE). The online label at Yale University Art Gallery notes it comes from “the world’s earliest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now here’s a divine development. Just ahead of the holidays, archaeologists have “digitally unrolled” a 1,800-year-old silver amulet to decipher an inscription that’s being hailed as the oldest known ...

A bike ride along the ancient Appian Way leads underground into Rome’s catacombs.