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

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

In "The Violent Take It by Force," Matthew Taylor tracks the rise of a fringe sect behind the Appeal to Heaven flag ...

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Conversations on religious freedom are key to democracy, but they are missing from the discourse this election year, writes a ...

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

Some claim the Founding Fathers didn’t want a “wall of separation between church and state.” But Indiana experts say the ...

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

Potted history includes interesting thoughts on Patrick Pearse, Ireland’s saddest song, Bram Stoker’s less famous brother and ...

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

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 ...