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, ...

As Christianity spread through the Roman world, Greek and Roman statues were no longer seen as art but as spiritual threats.

Today’s fights over the religion in the public square are replays of fights from two thousand years ago. In The Idea of a Christian Society (1939), T. S. Eliot saw a conflict between Christianity and ...

The crusades to the Holy Land were a consuming obsession of Latin Christianity for four centuries and remain among the most famous episodes of the Middle Ages. Yet, in the perspective of history, they ...

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 ...

Here are some generally agreed-upon facts about religious trends in the United States. Institutional Christianity has weakened drastically since the 1960s. Lots of people who once would have been ...

(RNS) — The Rev. Ethan Stark and the Rev. Andy Behrendt hosted “A Pagan and a Pastor: A Necessary Conversation” to address some frequently asked questions about their faiths and misperceptions each ...

It's no secret that Easter, a Christian holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, has deep ties to ancient pagan rituals celebrating the renewal of spring. And hot cross buns, the ...

IN Pagan and Christian Rome, 1 Signor Lanciani, the engineer and antiquarian, whose lectures in this country will be remembered with pleasure by many, has given to English readers another volume of ...

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Claims that Easter was inspired by a pagan goddess are widespread but often misunderstood. The idea comes from a single medieval source mentioning a goddess named Eostre. There is no archaeological ...