Mike Aquilina gives us a fine work of Christianity’s history that deserves the attention of many readers besides this one.

As pagans saw it, was Christianity kind of a stupid religion? Even if we hear a fair amount of pagan attack on Christianity as stupid or criminal and we do know that some persecutions occur ...

Early Christianity faced numerous challenges, both from external persecution and internal doctrinal disputes. Among the most prominent defenders of the faith were Origen, Tertullian, and Justin Martyr ...

Even encountering African Christian communities, Europeans labeled local practices as heretical, justifying colonization and enslavement despite shared faith. In Ethiopia, Portuguese Jesuits rejected ...

(Fittingly, storks return to Europe from Africa about 9 months after the summer solstice.) After the founding of the Polish state and the simultaneous introduction of Christianity to its territory in ...