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Easter and Passover begin on the same weekend this year. This is an opportunity to revisit misconceptions about Jesus’s ministry and to address anti-Jewish uses of Christian scripture.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s famous musical has long inspired controversy for how it depicts the story of Jesus of Nazareth.
Two Christmas traditions – those around the birth of Jesus and Santa who brings gifts to all – contain strong elements of magic.
In the New Testament, there is nothing about Mary’s birth, death, appearance, or age. What we do know about the mother of Jesus is, in fact, quite surprising.
Trees that produce resin for frankincense and myrrh – used for thousands of years in healthcare, worship and trade – are facing collapsing populations.
A historian of the Bible in American life explains how Bible verses are being picked out of context to make a case for the anti-vaxxer movement.
A religion scholar explains how evangelicalism in the US is not a monolith. It includes a a variety of churches, theologies and practices.
The expression to “wash one’s hands of responsibility” comes from Christian scripture and has been part of a toxic legacy of blaming Jews for Jesus’s death.
The mix-up might be explained by the rush to remove sacred remains to Rome some 1,700 years ago.
The 40-day Lenten season, when many Christians observe fasting, began in mid-February. A scholar explains how the practice may have emerged around the fifth century.
Joe Biden used the National Prayer Breakfast to call for unity amid ‘dark, dark times.’ The event has been attended by every president since Dwight Eisenhower in 1953.
Australians have always preferred to keep their faith private, and politics “out” of religion. But the two are intrinsically entwined, and always have been.
A conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is giving rise to speculations that it is the same astronomical event as the biblical Star of Bethlehem. An expert explains why it is not.
Recent archaeological studies suggest that early Christians were identifying important sites as little as a century after the last of the gospels.
On Nov. 7, when President-elect Joe Biden urged in his address that we “give each other a chance,” his words summoned Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address of 1865.
‘Homeless Jesus’ exemplifies how faith-based organizations can use public art to communicate religious ideas in a respectful and accessible way.
During the pandemic, the practice of faith has moved to being a more personal one for many. A scholar of the Judeo-Christian tradition explains how tragedy often resulted in private piety.
The Catholic charismatic movement in the United States began during the 1960s. The practices of Catholic charismatics encompass various forms of Pentecostalism.
Trump recently suggested that a vote for Biden would hurt God. Religion scholars explain what, in Christian theology, it would take to injure the creator.
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Visiting Research Fellow University of Chester, University of Chester
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Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, University of Sheffield
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Senior Lecturer in New Testament, Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity
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Affiliate Professor, Theological Studies, Concordia University
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Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute of Democracy, Co-host of Democracy Works Podcast, Penn State
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Classics, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor (New Testament Studies), University of Divinity
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Professor of Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
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Research Fellow in Digital Theology, Director of CODEC Research Centre, Durham University
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Director, Think Physics, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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Director of Slang and New Language Archive, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College London
