Two of medieval Europe’s most popular saints, Barlaam and Josaphat, were in fact Christianized versions of the Buddha.

More than anyone else, Graham built evangelicalism into a force that rivaled liberal Protestantism and Roman Catholicism in the U.S.

From now on, Berlin will live with the memory of the wall for longer than it lived with the wall itself.

But was the civil rights leader Brutus or Caesar?

Medieval anti-clerical prophecy sounded a lot like modern social media.

While a comparison with the Cuban Crisis does little to reassure us, it can offer some lessons on how our government avoided disaster in an even worse situation. We have been closer to the brink and still found a way to walk back.