The Reformation: History in an Hour

For nearly a thousand years following its foundation, there was only one Christian Church. Centered in the city of Rome, the Church expanded and grew until it became the dominant religion in Europe and beyond. The early growth of the Church had been...

* “Money should be used to help others.” ...* “Attachment is the strongest block to realization.” * “Love is the strongest medicine.” * “All action is prayer.”* “Whoever works for God, his work w...

“I weary of writing more about these buildings, because it seems to me that I shall not be believed if I write more...I swear by God, in Whose power I am, that all I have written is the truth.” – Francisco Alvares In the Lasta Mou...

A New York Times Bestseller!"Who do you say that I am?"Uttered by Jesus Christ, this profound question has presented an age-old challenge to believers, skeptics, scholars, and rulers.In attempting to answer this question, The True Jesus goes straigh...

Based on the author's thirty years of field work interviewing activists involved in religious-related terrorist movements around the world, God at War explores the dark attraction between religion and warfare.

Uniquely among the world’s religions, the central claims of Christianity concern not just timeless spiritual truths, but tangible historical events. At the heart of the of the Christian faith are things that are meant to have happ...

Nineteenth-century America was rife with Protestant-fueled anti-Catholicism. Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez reveals how Protestants nevertheless became surprisingly and deeply fascinated with the Virgin Mary, even as her role as a devotional figure who uni...

TORTURE -- INFANTICIDE -- BRUTALITY -- MURDERThe World Would Never Be the Same"The execution of Jesus was a crime born of the streets, the barracks, the enclaves of the privileged, and the smoke-filled back rooms of religious and political ...

Thomas Watson was one of the most famous Puritan preachers in history, and his seventeenth-century writings are still read across the world today. A highly influential example of Puritan writing, The Great Gain of Godliness is Watson's study of Mala...