“History” Articles

So, if Easter did coincide with an Anglo-Saxon feast to a goddess no one’s ever heard of—well, I mean, coincidences happen.

It’s called the “Miracle of Lanciano,” mostly because “Holy crap, we have bleeding human remains on the altar” isn’t particularly catchy.

The great thinkers of the Mediterranean have already identified the seven virtues and how you can acquire them! It doesn’t get much easier than that.

Timeline is easy to learn, quick to play, and satisfies the human love of trivia.

In the end, it wasn’t being at odds with his board of elders that brought Jonathan Edwards down—it was dirty magazines. Because, isn’t it always dirty magazines?

For several centuries, if you wanted to make sure the viewer knew you were sculpting Moses, you gave him horns. Weird, right?

St. Lawrence was literally barbecued to death. And then the Catholic Church made him patron saint of chefs, presumably to rub it in.

The point is, it’s Christmas (or actually Advent, but since no one seems to understand the difference between Christmas and Advent, whatevs, call it Christmas if you want, sure)!

A lot of dumb things have happened in Church history and in the Bible—and it’s through the dumb stuff that God is at work.

Please understand that when I call drive-in theaters one of the worst ideas of all time, I’m speaking from direct experience.

Since I’m not a historian, I’m going to tell you about the weird, possibly legendary, and super awkward stuff this guy did.

The story goes that Hensley wandered out into the wilderness to seek God’s will, which he was pretty sure would involve snakes.

We devote huge amounts of time and energy guilting each other over what we eat.

The people of Calcata continued to parade through the streets with the prepuce every January 1 almost until Return of the Jedi hit theaters.

The Trump apocalypse, in one way or another, has always been upon us.

‘Downton Abbey’ succeeds by reminding us of the human face of history.