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Diarmaid MacCulloch’s ambitious book looks at celibacy, marriage, homosexuality and trans issues from the perspective that ...

The series is part of a steady drumbeat of violent rhetoric, prayer rallies, and marches coming out of the rising Christian ...

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Events that occurred this week in Christian history include Pope John Paul II visiting Ireland, the death of George ...

A Christian petition has demanded that the Texas Department of Education stop considering a Bible-infused curriculum.

From ancient Greece to modern day America, gay people have endured seemingly endless restrictions on their simple desire to ...

The Pope’s public remarks avoided the subject.” In that dense sentence, there is much that is characteristic of Diarmaid MacCulloch, a learned, witty, Gibbonian historian, whose magisterial A History ...

Corey D. B. Walker does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...