Today, the cross is the universal symbol of Christianity. It was not always so. In the early centuries after the time of Jesus Christ, there were other symbols: a dove, a ship, an anchor and a lyre.

The hoard, dating back roughly 1,000 years, was found on the shores of the Schlei, an inlet in the Baltic Sea.

“I love your cross.” I hear these words frequently, ever since I began wearing a Russian Orthodox crucifix on a chain around my neck.

Michael Symmons Roberts investigates the meaning of the Christian cross and hears from those who have discovered its power in their own lives. Paradoxically a symbol of suffering and defeat but ...

The cross of Christ registers for us not the notion of love against wrath, nor of love without wrath, nor of love eclipsing wrath, but of love doing its perfect work in the judgment-death of sin ...

And many Western Christians wear a cross as a testimony to their faith in and commitment to Jesus Christ. In general, however, Western Christians see the crucified Christ as a suffering victim, ...

Christians would often pray standing up with their arms stretched out in the form of a cross. As early as the 200s, Christians were making the sign of the cross with their hands.

The cross, like a piece of wood nailed to the ground, lacks reasons or answers. But the one condemned holds them all. Christianity is a vast Chestertonian paradox, perhaps because life itself is also.

Rare 1,200-year-old Christian cross found in field by metal detectorist Metal detectorist unearths gilded Saxon pendant from Early Middle Ages. By Andrea Margolis Fox News.