Historian MacCulloch (Christianity) notes in this sweeping study of Christian sexuality that the teachings of Jesus contain numerous heterodox statements regarding sex and gender. These include his ...

Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch, the prize-winning Oxford emeritus professor behind several books and popular BBC series, suspects his often-surprising new book, Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex ...

LOWER THAN THE ANGELS: A History of Sex and Christianity. By Diarmaid MacCulloch. Viking. 688 pages. $40. In matters of faith and its practice, voices of moderation are seldom well-received, let alone ...

Now here’s a divine development. Just ahead of the holidays, archaeologists have “digitally unrolled” a 1,800-year-old silver amulet to decipher an inscription that’s being hailed as the oldest known ...

Sarah Mullally was on Friday appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the spiritual leader of 85 million ...

Archaeologists discovered a silver amulet containing an 18-line text showing the oldest known devotion to Christianity north of the Alps. Computer technology helped unravel the mystery of the text ...

The British historian William Reginald (Reg) Ward, who died on October 2 of last year, accomplished more in his retirement than most scholars accomplish in their entire careers. We shared in a special ...

Now here’s a divine development. Just ahead of the holidays, archeologists have “digitally unrolled” a 1,800-year-old silver ...

The difference between global Christianity and world Christianity. Febrile stereotyping is now a special shame, since actual historical research on the motives, mixed achievements, complexities, ...