Today marks the 508th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, marking the day in 1517 when Catholic priest and professor ...

Do you ever feel not good enough? Are you worried about your conscience and whether God, if there is one, might have reason to punish you? You are not alone. We all at times feel inadequate. The ...

On Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 4 p.m., Dr. Jon Balserak of the University of Illinois Chicago gave a lecture titled “Calvin and ...

This October 31, perhaps amid Halloween noise, let’s pause to remember the day when one man’s encounter with grace helped pull Europe out of darkness. The Reformation gave the world literacy, liberty, ...

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is neither a history of economics, nor a religious history. It borrows from ...

The Amish, founded by Jakob Ammann (1644–1730) as a stricter branch of the Mennonite movement, carried these convictions into secluded communal life. Their emphasis on simplicity, humility, and ...

Today in History for Nov. 2: In 1164, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket began a six-year self-imposed exile in France. Once a close friend of England's Henry II, Becket had become an outspoken ...

Switzerland’s two powerhouse cities sit at opposite ends of the country — literally and figuratively. Zurich commands the ...

St Augustine greatest treatise was his City of God, begun in 412, in the dark days after the capture of Rome by Alaric, and finished about 426. It was his philosophy of history, and his defense of Chr ...

Never before or later in Polish architecture did the wealth of forms and details take on such a spectacular scale as in the Baroque era, when temples and palaces were designed with exceptional panache ...

In Europe between 1450 and 1750, over 100,000 people, mainly women, were put on trial for witchcraft. Nearly half that number were hanged, strangled, decapitated, and burned at the stake. In Wales, ...