Some men had made great stands before him, notably John Wycliffe and Jan Hus in the 14th and 15th centuries respectively. But for reasons only God knows, Luther had a particular ability to spark the ...
Today's Gospel turns on an irony -- it is a blind man, Bartimaeus, who becomes the first person outside of the Apostles to recognize Jesus as the Messiah. And his healing is the last miracle Jesus ...
Glenn Hinson, a retired professor of church history at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, in his book "The Early Church: Origins to the Dawn of the Middle Ages ...
And everything astronomers "see" in the distant universe is literally history. When astronomers study objects that are far away, they are seeing light that shows the objects as they existed at the ...