christianity

A collection of essays in which contemporary Christian writers examine various issues related to the Christian experience.

Jeff Chu, after coming out to his parents as a gay man, documents his personal journey, from Brooklyn to California, to discover the God forbidden to him because of his sexuality and understand what the diverse followers of Christ believe about homosexuality.

In this prophetic call to faithful Christian living, Marva Dawn identifies the epidemic sociocultural attitudes that destroy hope in our modern lives. Because affluent persons don't knoow what to value, we remain dissatisfied with what we have and are compelled to want more at the expense of the world's less fortunate.

How a senior devil insructs a junior devil in the art of temptation.

The Golden Age of Christianity began, appropriately enough on January 1st. On that day in the year 800, the Pope placed a crown on the head of the Frankish king Charlemagne, declaring him the new Holy Roman Emperor.

Five centuries after the death of Jesus, Rome fell to the Goths, plunging Europe into the Dark Ages. Yet on both sides of the continent, Christianity continued to grow, though it would soon face a new challenge.

For 300 years, Christians were the target of violence and hatred in the Roman Empire. That changed literally when the Emperor Constantine saw a vision of Jesus in a dream; the religion had gained its single most important convert.

They were one of many sects barely tolerated by the Roman Empire. But according to the Scriptures, fifty days after Jesus died at Calvary, His followers were "filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages." With that miraculous event, a religion was born.