Across Europe, many medieval churches stand on land that was considered sacred long before Christianity arrived. At first ...

The festive season is upon us once again, but have you ever wondered what Santa Claus has been up to for the 364 days leading to the one day we all celebrate?

Since the early 20th century, Christmas has evolved from a religious holiday to a hugely popular cultural holiday observed by ...

A Christian empire that inherited classical learning, Byzantium preserved pagan texts via schools, new script, scholia, and ...

English Heritage has admitted it got it wrong when it shared false claims that the date of Christmas is derived from a pagan ...

On Monday, I began my review of Steven Smith's Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac, and I finished at the point where Smith, having surveyed ancient paganism, ...

The West once was pagan and then became Christian; historically, it is the pagan-Christian West. Today, in contrast, it has become the Christian-pagan West. No century was ever more misjudged than the ...

How a brilliant monk laid the groundwork for Christian Europe. “Irony” seems a concept invented for such a situation as this: The man historian Christopher Dawson once called the most influential ...

NOT long ago a friend of mine, discussing the ethics of Christ, observed that if we took them too seriously we should become despicable. ‘A man,’ he said, ‘who did not defend himself when attacked, ...