Hermenegild: The Story of an Unfamiliar Martyr

In 579 Hermenegild son of King Leuvigild of Spain rebelled against his father and set up his own kingdom in the south, centred on the city of Seville. Hermenegild had just converted from Arianism to Nicene Christianity; his father however remained Arian. Leuvigild was displeased by his son’s conversion, for political reasons as much as for religious ones: his Arianism made him in a religious sense the enemy of the neighbouring Nicene kingdoms (Francia, Galicia and the Eastern Empire). This difference of creed did not usually prevent him from making agreements and alliances with these Nicene neighbours, but it did...

Benjamin Wheaton

3 Ways Athanasius Can Help Us Read Our Bibles

Wyatt Graham

“Where is the God of Marston Moor and Naseby?”

Michael A. G. Haykin

How Thomas Cranmer Helped Shape Particular Baptist Piety

Michael A. G. Haykin

The Young Martyr of St. Lucy’s Day

Lauren Ducommun

What Did Church Membership Classes Look Like in the First Century?

Wyatt Graham

Churches generally offer membership classes or even classes for new believers. In most cases, these classes teach the basics of the faith or what someone should know before joining a church. These kinds of classes are not new. Early Christians called such training catechesis. In the early years, Christians taught the basics of life and doctrine through catechetical instruction. This kind of training seems to have started very early in church history, even during the apostolic age. So it is worth asking the questions: what did the apostolic church teach new believers? What were the fundamentals of the faith? What...

What Did Church Membership Classes Look Like in the First Century?

Wyatt Graham

Robert Rundle, the First Protestant Missionary in the Canadian Prairies

Clint Humfrey

Visitors to the beautiful Rocky Mountains of Banff, Alberta, will pass a mountain known to the Cree as “Waskahigan Watchi” or “house mountain.” It is one of the most photographed and painted mountains in the Canadian Rockies. Since 1858, it has been called Mount Rundle, named after a missionary who ministered to aboriginal people groups in the Iron (Cree) and Blackfoot Confederacies. When the explorer John Palliser came to the area, he was impressed that even a decade after the missionary had departed, there was still evidence of his evangelistic work among the local Indigenous community. Robert Rundle (1811–1896) worked...

Robert Rundle, the First Protestant Missionary in the Canadian Prairies

Clint Humfrey

13 Marks of Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s Preaching according to J.I. Packer

Christopher A. Hutchinson

When renowned theologian JI Packer passed away in July, like countless Christians around the world, I paused to give thanks for Dr. Packer’s long life and influence upon the Church. Many others have written moving and comprehensive testimonies and I have nothing to add to those. But my mind did immediately think back to a small conference he spoke at in Savannah, Georgia in April, 1992. Organized by three historic downtown churches—Christ Episcopal, St. John’s Episcopal and Independent Presbyterian—Dr. Packer rotated between the three pulpits before leading a small pastors’ seminar on the last day. I was in my last...

13 Marks of Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s Preaching according to J.I. Packer

Christopher A. Hutchinson

What Happened at the Council of Nicaea?

Wes Huff

It’s a common accusation, “the books of the Bible were chosen at the Council of Nicaea.” I have read it in books and internet forums as well as heard it from laypeople and academics. It is a line that has been repeated over and over, having taken on a life of its own due to the popularity of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and the explosion of promulgation due to the internet. One of the main characters in the Da Vinci Code, Leigh Teabing, states at one point that, “Constantine commissioned and financed a new Bible, which omitted those...