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Drowning of  Marzanna  (Morana) in the Opole region in Poland. Photo: Mariusz Przygoda-FORUM-0436350188 Morana and Gaik: The ...

In the "Ecclesiastical History of the English People," the Venerable Bede wrote that Redwald, King of East Anglia starting ...

Reality is, [and please don't shoot the messenger], the way we do Church today is more rooted in pagan culture and rituals than in the Christian thought of the New Testament. This presents us with an ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Choir members sing hymns at Christ Church in Philadelphia during Sunday service, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo ...

The upcoming production of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' will run from Aug. 1 to Aug. 3 Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023 and covers entertainment and ...

It's retreating into a fantasy that's projected onto the past. Right now, so much focus has shifted from the Christian right to the MAGA tech-bros like Elon Musk. But they're both in the mix.

"And ISIS did that, hoping that … being killed in that gruesome way would persuade at least one of the men to recant, to save themselves by denying Christ. And none of them did. And actually one ...

Christian Bale’s kids are involved in choosing the roles their father takes Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Christian Bale is a proud father of two children. The Dark Knight star and his wife ...

Who invented Christmas? Historian Lucy Worsley traces the roots of Christmas by exploring the Anglo-Saxon tradition, wassailing where people sing to the apple trees to celebrate the winter ...

At the same time, the idea that pagan religion had survived into Europe’s Christian epoch began to captivate historians, folklorists and anthropologists. They interpreted foliate heads and erotic ...