This commentary is authored by John A. Tures, a professor of political science at LaGrange College. In the Christmas Season, we may think about the greatest Christian missionaries, and rate them based ...

The difference between global Christianity and world Christianity. Febrile stereotyping is now a special shame, since actual historical research on the motives, mixed achievements, complexities, ...

You might think that the more a brand name is known, the better, but that’s not always the case. We now commonly use brand names like Kleenex, Jacuzzi, and Frisbee to refer broadly to their most ...

Re-traces Paul’s quest to bring the Christian message to Asia and Europe. In hour two we meet the man whose transformation is one of the most compelling in history, the Apostle Paul. We journey with ...

Is Pope Leo XIV the first missionary to become pope since St. Peter? Some historians argue the point — more on that below — but all agree that his experience as a foreign missionary is a rarity in a ...

The border between Russia and Persia is cut by the Aras River, which rises in Turkey and empties into the Caspian Sea. In winter months the river is ravenous; it sweeps away footbridges and ...

The name of this magazine denotes its founders’ enthusiasm at the dawn of the 20th century for the Protestant missionary enterprise, which, the theory went, would soon convert whole sections of the ...

The efforts of Christian missionaries to win Jewish converts to Christianity has been the subject of discussion in the press and among the public here since the issue was raised by Rabbi Ferdinarid M.