Apps like Text With Jesus now offer the faithful, or perhaps the bored, a way to summon the voices of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and even Satan through the wonders of language modeling programs.

Christians celebrate Easter Sunday to commemorate Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, the miracle that started a global movement with 2.4 billion adherents. But what if Jesus’ family ...

For decades, American religiosity has been in decline, with each generation abandoning religion in greater numbers. In 2020, for the first time ever, fewer than half of Americans belonged to a church.

Elisha A. Hoffman wrote the hymn “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” in 1887. “What have I to dread, what have I to fear, ...

AI Jesus? No Thanks – A Machine Can’t Replace Human Forgiveness. Merging technology and religion is a risk, not a road to spiritual fulfillment, says a scholar of Christianity.

The latest issue of The New Yorker includes an essay by Adam Gopnik, “We’re Still Not Done With Jesus,” on the scholarly debates about the origins of Christianity. In the ...

The Victorian government has recently announced an inquiry into coercive control in religious contexts — this is an important step, but the committee will have a complex task untangling the ...

The "Jesus glow" trend reflects how insidious this can be. Conservative Christianity is being pitched to young people as a miracle beauty treatment, one that's implied to come at no real cost.

But the idea of Christianity as a religion that only becomes obsessed with the risen Christ after the trauma of the mid-60s is a highly implausible supposition, unmoored from what we actually know ...