>"To briefly set the scene, the fourth century was a complex period for Christianity. It moved from being a persecuted sect to _...Read More_

“As a Christian for most of my life and a pastor for nearly three decades, I’m quite familiar with the story: supposedly faithful people fashioning an idol made of gold and cravenly _...Read More_

>"Many of those who mobbed the Capitol on Wednesday claimed to be enacting God’s will."

>"COVID-19 has held a mirror to Christianity, just as the epidemics of the past did."

Albrecht Dürer may not have written Lament on Luther, finds study Research suggests elegy on arrest of Protestant reformer was the work not of the German artist but of a monk

"Officials previously thought that the Jacob Jordaens painting, which hung in a Brussels town hall for 60 years, was a copy"

Now, as Jeff Farrell reports for the Independent, a team of researchers is using new technology to uncover texts that were erased and written over by the monks who lived and worked at the monastery. Many of these original texts were written _...Read More_

>"Societies and cultures that seem ossified and entrenched can be completely upended by pandemics, which create openings for conquest, innovation and social _...Read More_

>"Stories featuring demons and sex date back to early Judaism and Christianity. They inspired the _...Read More_