Famous Christian artists Chris Tomlin and Ben Fielding have revived a third century hymn discovered on ancient Egyptian ...

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Mainstream Christianity’s attitudes about sex have always been complicated—and its institutions might even be able to evolve.

Throughout history, Christians have often believed Pontius Pilate was reluctant to condemn Jesus. History suggests otherwise, ...

A History of Sex and Christianity —the kind of hefty tome inevitably described as “magisterial” by reviewers—teems with ...

This reticence about contemporary politics notwithstanding, Wilsey does offer what he sees as a major political failure as a ...

David Bentley Hart imagines Eros, Hephaistos, Hermes, and Psyche coming out of retirement to debate contemporary philosophy ...

It may surprise people that the first-century Christian assemblies bear little resemblance to the institutions of Christianity we see populating America. In the New Testament, the early gatherings ...

The very heart of 19th-century communist philosophy born in the streets of first century Christian Jerusalem; the notion that for anyone to go without—without shelter, food, clothing ...

Now predominantly Muslim, North Africa was once a Christian heartland, producing Catholic popes who left their mark on the ...

This article attempts to understand the ethical implications of the early Christian leaders entrusted with the affairs of the first-century church started by Jesus Christ before his execution in 30 A.

From the early seventh century, the number of Christians in the region ... just churches and historical religious sites but ...