Although he doesn’t address it explicitly in his new book, MacCulloch is gay; after he was ordained a deacon in the Church of England in the 1980s, he decided against the priesthood because of ...

Dozens of TV shows, short films and epic movies have explored the four gospels of the Bible and the life of Jesus Christ. Joining pieces like 2004’s “The Passion of ...

The authors of the New Testament, like St. Luke the Evangelist who is believed to have penned the book Acts of the Apostles around A.D. 80, tell the struggles believers and the early church faced ...

The earliest followers of Jesus were not persecuted; they were prosecuted. This is the crucial point Jeremy Williams makes in Criminalization in Acts of the Apostles. While the distinction sounds ...

Both Christians and Deadheads were a ragtag group of communal devotees, preaching a simple message of love and peace and ...

From the blood of the martyrs to swimming pool baptisms, the new TV series stages the biblical drama with intelligence and creativity.

Thinkers in the early church, responding to these ambivalent cues and informed by Hellenistic philosophy as well as traditional Greco-Roman misogyny, made avoiding sex a central Christian virtue.

7. The early church changed the world through prayer As described in the book of Acts, the early church transformed the Roman Empire in just a few centuries.

It took the early church nearly 400 years to articulate the four marks that we profess in the Nicene Creed. It may also take some time to determine the definitive marks of a synodal church.

Six lectures of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger were almost lost forever. But now, they have been collected in a new Ignatius Press book, “The Divine Project: Reflections on Creation and Church.” ...