The clocks going back hold the tantalising promise of an extra hour in bed. But the modern attitude towards that champion of indolence, the sloth, shows that sloth is still very much a deadly sin.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Christianity
Displaying 441 - 460 of 480 articles
The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife, once thought to be authentic, has been revealed as a fraud. How did critical scholarship uncover the truth, and how can it further biblical studies?
The church is too diverse to be governed from Canterbury and should agree to disagree on issues such as women priests and bishops and sexuality.
The discourse about who is and isn’t welcome is taking on a disturbing new tone.
The furore around freedom of sexual orientation vs religious freedom at a South African university should lead to deeper thinking about Christianity’s historical role in promoting liberalism.
Traditions about Jesus cannot be separated out into the categories of early and late, primary and secondary, authentic or inauthentic, fact and interpretation. One might as well try and unscramble an omelette.
In suggesting the ultimate restoration of all creatures in his recent encyclical, Pope Francis is breaking with the weight of Western philosophical and theological tradition.
Can Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Dylann Roof be forgiven — and should they? Forgiveness is not an isolated, one-time act but a longer commitment to acceptance back into a community.
When conspiracy theorists label games and literature “Satanic,” what does it say about their own imaginations and ability to engage in play?
Australia has a form of secularism where religion is allowed in the public sphere. As long as religion remains one voice and one option among many, the nation will still be secular.
If the biblical flood occurred just a few thousand years ago, that doesn’t leave enough time for the geologic history we see in rocks and fossils.
The proposition that Easter is a 100% Christian affair is manifestly unsustainable. It shows an ignorance of history. Worse, it shows a failure to understand the way religious traditions work.
Why does an atheist literary scholar need to know about the Bible? It’s a text with innumerable interpretative possibilities that allows readers to connect ‘the apparently unconnectable’.
As the first woman bishop prepares for her consecration on January 26, a row has erupted over another high-profile consecration scheduled for the following week. Libby Lane will become bishop of Stockport…
“Can you love your neighbor as yourself, and at the same time knee him in the face as hard as you can?” American Christian Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) champion Scott “Bam Bam” Sullivan wonders in an interview…
“It’s not even that good a story,” quips Moses during Exodus: Gods and Kings, the latest biblical blockbuster to assault our cinema screens. I think Moses was being rather harsh on himself there; it’s…
The wise men were likely accomplished Greek astrologers, watching the stars for signs of a king’s birth. Technical terms used in the Bible’s description point to a real astronomical event.
The term “reboot” means something particular in the movies. The metaphor is drawn from computers: a “reboot” restarts a machine whose software has malfunctioned. But in cinematic terms a reboot refers…
Did a man called Jesus of Nazareth walk the earth? Discussions over whether the figure known as the “Historical Jesus” actually existed primarily reflect disagreements among atheists. Believers, who uphold…
Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets and the hunt is on for life beyond Earth. Once biological neighbors are identified, our planet’s philosophies and religions will need to adapt.
Top contributors
-
Director of the Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy & Associate Professor, New Testament, Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity
-
Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
-
Visiting Research Fellow University of Chester, University of Chester
-
Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
-
Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, University of Sheffield
-
Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
-
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
-
Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies & Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
-
Associate Professor (New Testament Studies), University of Divinity
-
Assistant Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University
-
President, Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
-
Reader in Social Sciences, Edge Hill University
-
Senior lecturer, Australian Catholic University
-
Professor of History, University of Dayton
-
Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
