WEBSITE: Explore Church History
Posted by Fr. Stephen, MSC Nov7

ExploreChurchHistory.com is a newly-launched website that provides a collection of information and resources concerning the history of Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular. Don’t expect encyclopaedic entries on the site, as it only contains condensed articles. The entry on Jesus Christ for example is only two paragraphs long. Thankfully, it provides links to wikipedia, experts and other well-established sources when they are available.

The author of ExploreChurchHistory.com is Dr. Stephen Haliczer, who serves as Presidential Research Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University. He has written and published a number of books and articles about Church history.

ExploreChurchHistory.com is worth exploring if your are looking for bite-size information about the rich history of the Catholic Church. Visitors to the site are requested to send comments and suggestions for new entries or relevant links.



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  • 9 November 2009
    Stephen Haliczer Ph.D. said:

    Dear Fr. Stephen,

    Thank you for your blog post about Explore Church History. The site has been developed under my overall direction and is designed to grow through the suggestions of site visitors for new entries, experts and links. Already we have altered and expanded our previous entry about Mary the Mother of God at the suggestion of a site visitor and we are working on adding more material about Catholic Brothers at the suggestion of another.

    I too believe that the Church can best tell its story through digital media and that is one of the major reasons that I started Explore Church History. The site also ties in closely with “Vatican” the board game that I invented to simulate a papal election. The “Vatican” board game http://www.vaticanboardgame.com is full of historical references and about 50% of the content of game cards now can be searched using the search function on “Explore”. As a technology buff you will probably be interested to know that I have also pioneered what I call e-cards. These are cards with updated content that exist only on our website but are sized and numbered to fit into the card decks that a user receives with the game.

    Once again thank you for your post and if you or any of your readers have a suggestion for a new entry on “Explore Church History” please send me an e-mail shaliczer1@comcast.net

    Regards and Best Wishes,
    Stephen Haliczer Ph.D.
    Distinguished Research Professor
    Coordinator: Online Communities
    The College of DuPage Press

  • 10 November 2009
    Fr. Stephen, MSC said:

    You are doing great service to the Church. May God continually bless you and your work.

  • 12 November 2009
    Stephen Haliczer Ph.D. said:

    Dear Fr. Stephen,

    I am setting up a page on “Explore Church History” specifically to contain contributions from site visitors about the work they are doing for the church. If you would like to send a brief essay and some images I would be more than glad to publish them. This would be an excellent way of getting your work and your view about how freeware can help the church to a wider audience.

  • 17 November 2009
    Fr. Stephen, MSC said:

    Thanks, Stephen, for the invitation. I will send you one soon.

  • 4 December 2009
    Angela Quintana said:

    Dear Stephen Haliczer,

    I was trying to get you in the email above (shaliczer1@comcast.net), but it doesn’t work. Please could you put in contact with me in the email angela_quin@hotmail.com?

    I look forward to hear from you. Best regards,

    Angela Quintana (Valladolid, Spain)

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