Which titles for church history? Trial and Triumph? Peril & Peace series? others?

[Hoggirl]

Okay, folks. I think I have finally decided on history for next year! woo-hoo! We will be doing Middle Ages/Renaissance/Reformation (fall of Rome to around 1600). My plan is to use Biblioplan three days a week (we will likely not do the suggested read-alouds). They use the Famous Men of the Middle Ages and Famous Men of Renaissance and Reformation along with the accompanying Greenleaf Guides. I want to do 3 days of "history" history via Biblioplan and one day of "church" history via another source. I realize there will be some overlap, and I can adjust. This will leave us Friday for projects or "cushion." I have the Diana Waring audios, "That's Why They Call it Grace," which we will listen to on church history day, but I would like "A" (meaning one!) book or a short series of books to use as a spine that involves church history. I don't want anything too heavy, or as ds would categorize it, "boring." LOL! I already own Trial and Triumph and the entire Peril & Peace series. If you insist and have something FABULOUS I will buy another book. I need something engaging for a will-be-11-year-old boy. Would you use either of these two, or is there something "better." I am so relieved to have finally found something workable for history for us that won't be "too" much. But, I would like to figure out this one more piece. What say you wise hive? :)

[cajun.classical]

I really like both of those books. We've read through Trial and Triumph, and I found it engagingly written and intense at times. We will be using the entire Church Lives series next year for a Church History overview. I like the samples of this I've seen online.

Here's the difference between the 2. TT is short narratives/episodes of the lives of great men and women of the faith. It does not seek to be comprehensive or to explain the development of the church. That's exactly what Church Lives seeks to do. It's got narratives too, but also explains movements, creeds, and the development of the church. It's more in depth.

You could use both. I will when my next child cycles through. I think they'll complement each other.

HTH!