My duties as a religion writer forced me to watch Mel Gibson's Jesus movie, "The Passion of the Christ," two times in three days, an assignment that also interrupted my reading of "God Against the ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Take a close look at Donald Trump—the lavishness of his homes, the buildings emblazoned with his name and adorned with gold accoutrements, his insistent ego, ...

Archaeologists tracing the origins of the Ark of the Covenant, a lost biblical chest that is said to contain ancient relics, believe it may have also carried pagan idols thousands of years old. The ...

In Julian Barnes' new novel, Elizabeth Finch, the characters ponder a tantalizing question: What if the ancient Pagans had defeated the then-upcoming religion, Christianity, in the 4th century? Barnes ...

With best-selling books like "The Harlot by the Side of the Road" and "Moses: A Life," Jonathan Kirsch has been pioneering an unusual genre that combines themes religious, historical and literary, ...

A series of Earth-shattering volcanic eruptions in Iceland during the Middle Ages may have spurred the people living there to turn away from their pagan gods and convert to Christianity, a new study ...

Many Sanatanis today like to describe Hinduism as the mother of all dharmic religions, and sometimes even as the mother of all pagan faiths. This obsession with the word “pagan” is not native to India ...

Religious differences fuel many of the world's violent conflicts, detractors and supporters of organized faith often lament, practically in unison. Author Jonathan Kirsch would put a finer point on ...