A Sustainable Life: Volunteer on a dig for the thrill of digging up the past (you’ll also learn to hate buckets)
In an article first published on The Conversation, GIL DAVIS, associate professor and director of the ancient Israel program at Australian Catholic University, loos at what’s involved in taking part in an archaeological dig – and the benefits of doing so…
Origins: The messy history of our modern, Western calendar
In an article published on The Conversation, scholar MATTHEW S CHAMPION, of Australian Catholic University, look at the rather complicated history of the Western calendar…
Essay: What the Bible’s approach to history can teach us about America’s glory and shame
In an article first published on The Conversation, MARK K GEORGE, a professor at Iliff School of Theology in the US, says the Bible offers an example of how, amid binary approaches to US history, the debate about how America tells its story can be reframed…
Essay: From ‘Make America Great Again’ to ‘Make America Better’ – how US history shapes Christianity and politics
MATTHEW PATRICK ROWLEY, author of ‘Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again’, looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, at how Christians tend to approach the past…
POSTCARDS: IN WASHINGTON, DC, AN APP SPOTLIGHTS AMERICAN LANDMARKS “WITH A NATIVE TWIST”
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from the US capital…
ESSAY: THE HISTORY OF THE CROSS AND ITS MANY MEANINGS OVER THE CENTURIES
In an article first published on The Conversation, JOANNE M PIERCE, professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross in the US, looks at the history of the cross as a symbol of the Christian faith…
New eight part series on Jesus to air in US in lead-up to Easter
The story of Jesus Christ is being explored in an eight episode series airing on the US TV channel HISTORY in the lead-up to Easter. Jesus: His Life is told from the perspective of different Biblical figures, including his parents Mary and Joseph, John the Baptist, the High Priest Caiaphas, Jesus’ betrayer Judas Iscariot, Pontius Pilate, […]
Cancer-curing Marie Curie voted the most influential woman in history
Thomson Reuters Foundation Nobel prize-winning scientist Marie Curie was the most influential woman in history, Britain’s BBC found in a poll on Thursday, highlighting her role in curing cancer. Readers of BBC History magazine ranked Polish-born Curie at the top of a list of 100 women who changed the world, for becoming the first person […]
ON THE SCREEN: THE SOMETIMES CONFRONTING, SOMETIMES INSPIRING, HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
NILS VON KALM looks at Australia’s Centre for Public Christianity’s documentary, ‘For the Love of God: How the Church is Better and Worse Than You Ever Imagined’…
CASTING THE NET: METHODIST HERITAGE
DAVID ADAMS looks at a website all about the history of Methodism…