I am in need of a good church history text at the adult level. Is there a particular one you recommend? Thanks, Dolores Lowe
There is no one particular church history text we can recommend. Like books about theology, church history texts will reflect the author’s theological persuasions. In our opinion, it is better to [...]

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Sir Winston Churchill June 4, 1945, before losing the election to the Labor Party which offered peace and socialism:
“No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no [...]

There’s always room for differing opinions when studying chronology, but here is a possible chronology for some of the events of the New Testament, according to the Reese Chronological Bible (we would differ with some of these dates):
Augustus rules 31 B.C.-A.D. 14
Jesus born 5 B.C.
Tiberius rules A.D. 14-37
Jesus’ Death & Resurrection A.D. 29
Coming of the [...]

A History teacher who attends my church recently recommended that I read Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong by James Loewen in the context that most history we’ve been taught in school is erroneous. Supposedly this author uses primary sources and has brought to light many falsehoods [...]

A Review of The Mystery of History, Volumes I and II by Linda Hobar
Reviewed by Laurie Bluedorn
I wish The Mystery Of History had been written fifteen or twenty years earlier so that my own family could have used it. It would have been perfect for our large, young family and would have relieved me of [...]

Excerpt taken from The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (Cato) by Plutarch
Cato the Elder Educates His Son
… As soon as he had a son born, though he had never such urgent business upon his hands, unless it were some public matter, he would be by when his wife washed it and dressed it [...]

Aulus Gellius
Attic Nights (written 2nd century A.D.)
Book 5, Chapter 2
About the horse of king Alexander, called Bucephalas.
1 The horse of king Alexander was called Bucephalas because of the shape of his head. 2 Chares wrote that he was bought for thirteen talents and given to king Philip; that amount in Roman money is [...]

Aulus Gellius
Attic Nights (written 2nd century A.D.)
Book XII, Chapter 1
A discourse of the philosopher Favorinus, in which he urged a lady of rank to feed with her own milk, and with that of other nurses, the children whom she had borne.
1 Word was once brought in my presence to the philosopher Favorinus that the [...]

1. Great Pyramid of Giza
2. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
3. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
4. Temple of Artemis [Diana] at Ephesus
5. Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
6. Colossus of Rhodes
7. Lighthouse of Alexandria
Josephus, Against Apion, 1.19-20
I will now relate what hath been written concerning us in the Chaldean histories, which records [...]