I am reading a curious book called “Pagan Christianity.” The authors, Frank Viola and George Barna, both devoted Christians, present this thesis: The church in its contemporary, institutional form has ...

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, ...

That’s how the leader of Philadelphia’s 1.5 million Catholics referred to “many self-described Christians.” Archbishop Charles Chaput made the controversial comment while calling for a “new ...

Thinking in a Catholic context, Maureen Mullarkey ponders whether the fading of Christianity in the West and its rise in the Global South is going to change Christianity in ways that the small-o ...

I appreciate it when a writer shows all his cards at the beginning of a book so I don’t have to guess at his presuppositions. Frank Viola does just that in the opening line of his newly re-released ...

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 ...

“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” has been released in movie form! It’s again generating controversy over the evil effects such fantasy has upon our children! Paganism! Magic! Wizards! Oh, my!

The late 4th century witnessed the death of the pagan world and the rise of the early medieval era. Today, our culture focuses on the here & now and we neglect the past. But the past is important ...