The Christian holiday of Easter is built on top of a pagan festival celebrating the spring equinox, with the symbols of the ...

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, ...

Recent events have left Christians wondering how they stand in American society. In the last year, we at Christianity Today have received several manuscripts by prominent Christian intellectuals ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A team of archaeologists has uncovered the ruins of an ancient pagan temple from the Roman period in Italy. The temple ...

Beneath the sacred floors of St. Peter’s Basilica lies a forgotten Roman necropolis that predates the rise of Christianity ...

As for rabbits, the timing of their association with Easter also eliminates the possibility that they are a holdover from ...

On Saturday, Feb. 7, Evangelist Loren Davis signed his new book, "The Paganization of Christianity," at Barnes and Noble Bookstore in the Woodlands, but on Thursday, June 20, 1996, he witnessed a sign ...

(RNS) — The Rev. Ethan Stark and the Rev. Andy Behrendt hosted “A Pagan and a Pastor: A Necessary Conversation” to address some frequently asked questions about their faiths and misperceptions each ...

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 ...

Despite centuries of suppression, pagan heritage has stubbornly persisted and continues to influence modern beliefs. This goes beyond old gods and festivals; pagan tradition is the essence of what ...