Appearing only once in the story of Jesus' birth, the wise men from the East made a lasting impression in the Christian imagination.

The genesis of this study was Vol. 297: "Biblical Time Keeping – BC and AD Versus BCE and CE," published on December 7, 2025.

On October 6, in the year 1536, a pitiful figure was led from a dungeon in Vilvorde Castle near Brussels, Belgium. For nearly a year and a half, the man had suffered isolation in a dark, damp cell.

The political history of the Catholic Church -- from the Crusades to the Holocaust -- makes this abundantly clear. If I have learned one thing in my four years studying history here at Tufts, it is ...

For generations, family Bibles held information on the important occurrences that took place in the Black family. African Americans trusted their bibles for much more than sacred writings— they also ...

If anything, the historical details are even messier than Susan Lim’s new account allows. What does history have to do with faith? Everything. As Paul attests in 1 Corinthians 15, Christ died. He was ...

Ryan Walters spent a decade teaching high school history — the Mayflower, the Constitutional Convention, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King, Jr. — and noticed a throughline: For many key figures ...

History's "The Bible" scores ratings of Biblical proportions. TV tweet of the day so far. TV Tuesday. TV Linkzilla Daily for 3/5/13 starts now. Critics didn't love "The Bible," no surprise. Not to ...