Christianity

Hugh Trevor-Roperhistorian, essayist, master of Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge, regius professor of modern history at Oxford, a life-member of the House of Lordsargued in 1965 that Africa had no history prior to European exploration and colonizatio…

Someone says it at least once every presidential election: The Democratic candidates need God, if not to save their souls, then to salvage their chances in the Midwest. Or the South, or whichever region the interlocutor of the day is using as a proxy for whit…

The Word of God is an absolute necessity. All sixty-six books were inspired and authored by the Holy Spirit of God using 40 human instruments. Orthodox Christianity believes that in the Scriptures in their original manuscripts are without error and fault. T…

My idea of heaven is sitting in the outfield bleachers at Wrigley Field, on a beautiful summer day, watching a baseball game that has gone into extra innings, and never ends, Reverend Angelo Gambatese. After 31 years, Maria, 76, and Kathy, 70, wedded earlier…

Vikings. The word evokes ferocious warriors, swords, battleaxes, and bloodthirsty raids. Most of what we know about the Vikings, however, are exaggerations written by people who encountered them. There is a way for us to hear the Vikings speak for themselves:…

Just one day away from the release of his highly anticipated album Jesus Is King, Kanye West will join  Zane Lowe for an exclusive Beats 1 interview later today. Apple Music made the announcement earlier today, revealing that the duo will “cover everything” …

One of my favorite speeches in recent history was delivered by Barack Obama at Notre Dame University ten years ago. In it he warned against the particular kind of self-righteousness for which the Christian Right and some advocates of an equally non-reflective…

Podcast Ep. 292: The Unabashed Atheist Who’s Not Afraid of Hell

Christianity in America is declining at a "rapid pace," according to startling new analysis from The Pew Research Center. The report found that the majority of Americans 65 percent still describe themselves as Christians, though the proportion has significan…

In 2007 and 2014, the Pew Research Center conducted a Religious Landscape Survey, arguably the largest, most comprehensive look at religion in the country. Each of them had more than 35,000 participants who answered questions about their beliefs in detail. T…