People find it hard to believe that Christianity had such an inauspicious beginning in A.D. 33 with the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. He had only a handful of followers — many of them poor ...

To keep up your courage in case this happened to you as well. But by and large the Christian leaders did not encourage people volunteering themselves as martyrs.

If institutional drift or the passage of time explains the Christian origins of liberalism, why did not the same thing happen in Muslim lands? It is in part because he has no real theory of how ...

While the number of Christians continued to grow from 2010 to 2020, the world’s population grew faster, according to the Pew Research Center.

Did Christianity destroy classical pagan culture? Catherine Nixey is right: the early Christians were violently destructive. So were the Romans, the Persians, and the plagues that swept across the ...

He did not, however, say that he has "done more for Christianity than Jesus." That quote originated with a satire article.

It happens a lot after famous nonbelievers die: People claim the nonbeliever had a deathbed conversion to Christianity. And it happened again after the death last week of physicist Stephen Hawking ...

H ow did Christianity shape the civilization of the West? Let me count (some of) the ways, with an assist at several points from British intellectual historian Larry Siedentop. The story of Jesus ...

Specifically, did the Exodus happen? My friend Rabbi David Wolpe announced some years ago that it didn’t matter whether the Exodus occurred.