The West once was pagan and then became Christian; historically, it is the pagan-Christian West. Today, in contrast, it has become the Christian-pagan West. No century was ever more misjudged than the ...

On Monday, I began my review of Steven Smith's Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac, and I finished at the point where Smith, having surveyed ancient paganism, ...

Researchers have identified what is believed to be the world's earliest surviving Christian inscription, shedding light on an ancient sect that followed the teachings of a second-century philosopher ...

Solstice: the sun stands still. In temperate countries of the northern and southern hemispheres, every year there are two: summer and winter. The northern hemisphere’s summer solstice, which occurs on ...

According to OCSO, Christian Vargas Pagan admitted to going to his estranged wife's home, angry that she was seeing another ...

As Christians conquered pagan lands, they regularly superimposed Christian symbols on pagan shrines. I thought of this when I read that the buildings of Chicago Theological Seminary have been sold to ...

“Irony” seems a concept invented for such a situation as this: The man historian Christopher Dawson once called the most influential Englishman who ever lived is the patron saint of … Germany. And, as ...

A growing number of Britons who leave Christianity are turning to paganism or other forms of spiritualism instead of ...

NOT long ago a friend of mine, discussing the ethics of Christ, observed that if we took them too seriously we should become despicable. ‘A man,’ he said, ‘who did not defend himself when attacked, ...