Ukraine’s Orthodox Church recently broke off from Russia. This dispute has a history that goes back to medieval Christianity, and continues to shape modern-day politics.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Christianity
Displaying 281 - 300 of 477 articles
A new biography sheds light on Engenas Lekganyane, founder of the Zion Christian Church.
Two thirds of Anglicans supported leaving the EU but most evangelicals and charismatics voted Remain.
Reports of demonic possession are once again on the rise. But during the devil’s last apogee in early modern Europe, demonic afflictions were taken seriously by both priests and physicians.
The biblical story of Jesus’s birth is an inherently political story – something that makes many Christians uncomfortable.
An evolutionary biologist makes the case that there’s no reconciling science and religion. In the search for truth, one tests hypotheses while the other relies on faith.
Many people become more forgiving of poor service if there are Christmas symbols around.
Many teachers believe that fundamentalists are not really religious, but have just misinterpreted their holy books.
In their zeal to evangelize the world, at the end of 19th century, young families were sent overseas with little to no training in anything beyond the Bible and no promise of funding.
Christians go to fewer gigs, are less likely to listen to heavy metal, and prefer classical music. The reason likely comes down to morality.
Throughout the movement’s history, African Americans and whites lived, worked and protested side-by-side. It was one of the few long-term experiments in American interracial communalism.
Born Farrokh Bulsara, Mercury came from a Parsi family that practiced Zoroastrianism, a religion that influenced Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Québec is pushing to ban public servants from wearing religious garb even as the crucifix hangs in its legislature. It’s ironic and hypocritical for a province that prides itself on secularism.
The Uniting Church has been grappling with questions of faith and sexuality for decades - and its openness has led to relatively smooth changes to doctrine and practice.
President Trump has promised to protect religious liberty. But there was a time when evangelicals believed that a religion that needed protection from government had no reason to exist at all.
Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed Ali’s project of reconciliation can be greatly helped by the Orthodox Church.
Pope Francis has said that death penalty violates the dignity of a person. But, this might just deepen the debate among Christians, who for a long time have been divided over the issue.
Some ‘celebrity’ atheists espouse the very doctrines of violence that they accuse organised religon of.
A new book by a Christian thinker is challenging what it means to be an evangelical in Donald Trump’s America.
While some other churches are losing attendees, Pentecostal membership is growing. Good branding may be the key to their success.
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
