Editor's Note: This is a longer version of the print interview. Speaker, author and writer Marcellino D’Ambrosio’s book When the Church Was Young: Voices of the Early Fathers (Servant Books, 2014) is ...

Some readers know that I am not a “cradle Catholic.” Check out my conversion story on The Journey Home. Perhaps because of this, I had never heard, specifically, of the Early Church Fathers. Yes, I ...

Why evangelicals are connecting with the early church as they move into the 21st century. Last spring, something was stirring under the white steeple of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. A ...

Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion is an international journal, published annually. TRADITIO was founded in 1943 by émigré German scholars as a venue for ...

Historian Ron Sider (yes, historian) urges us to pay attention to the evidence. But Sider's academic training was not in ethics or public policy, but in history. He earned his Ph.D. in history from ...

Of all the Dark Age Scottish saints, Columba is the most spectacular star. In 563 AD Columba left Ireland and settled with the Gaels of Dál Riata, where he was granted the Island of Iona to found his ...

Ruth Essex, “I believe we can know the Bible” (Jan. 20), demonstrates the lasting effects of successful religious propaganda. Essex believes in the veracity of the church’s determination of ...

At an archaeological site in Ethiopia, researchers are uncovering the oldest Christian basilica in sub-Saharan Africa. Ioana Dumitru In the dusty highlands of northern Ethiopia, a team of ...

Archaeologists have discovered an early medieval church on the remote Holy Island of Lindisfarne that could be linked to key figures in the history of British Christianity. “We’re just really excited ...