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, ...

Here are some generally agreed-upon facts about religious trends in the United States. Institutional Christianity has weakened drastically since the 1960s. Lots of people who once would have been ...

In the 7th century, England stood at a crossroads — torn between the old gods of its ancestors and the rising tide of ...

Whether we are talking about pre-Christian or post-Christian paganism, the task of the Catholic is always the same: to bear witness to Jesus Christ. The question is: How? In the New Testament, ...

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 ...

As Christians conquered pagan lands, they regularly superimposed Christian symbols on pagan shrines. I thought of this when I read that the buildings of Chicago Theological Seminary have been sold to ...

In the "Ecclesiastical History of the English People," the Venerable Bede wrote that Redwald, King of East Anglia starting around 599 C.E., kept a temple with altars to pre-Christian gods as well as ...

"Byzantine. By the same hand. (Encaustic, G.B.G. 7 x 9.) Representing the triumph of Christianity over Paganism. Saints Dicaterina and Mercurios, whose names are given, are spearing the Roman emperors ...

Lithuania was famously the final pagan state in Europe. While the rest of the continent converted to Christianity, Lithuania ...