The five lines of faded characters written 3,000 years ago, and the ruins of the fortified settlement where they were found, are indications that a powerful Israelite kingdom existed at the time of th  read more »

AN historic church in the Nile Delta where the Holy Family is said to have stopped during their flight to Egypt, leaving Christ's footprint, has been damaged by fire, a security official said today.

In "The Nativity," Bakley promises that readers will "receive new information on when the birth of Christ happened," he writes. "It will show you the exact date and year he was born.  read more »

Did you know that Jesus Christ was a pimp? He must have been. I saw it on TV.

I have this sitting on my TiVo. I think I'll delete it. It's based on the "recently discovered" Gospel of Thomas, which was discovered as recently as 1945! But "The Secret Lives of Jesus" on the National Geographic Channel contends that this volume, written by Gnostics around 200 A.D., is just as valid as the Gospels written in the 1st Century. :sigh:  read more »

Probably not. That's the preliminary conclusion of a team of experts trying to determine whether a rib bone and a piece of cloth were the remains of 15th century French heroine Joan of Arc.

It's old, but it looks faked.  read more »

Archaeologists in Jordan said Monday they have discovered a cave underneath one of the world's oldest churches that may have once been an even more ancient site of Christian worship.Archaeologist Abde  read more »

A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially  read more »

Archaeologists in central Syria have unearthed the remnants of an 8th century church, an antiquities official said Thursday.  read more »

Carbon dating tests and excavation of a colorful pre-Incan temple indicate that it was built thousands of years ago by an advanced civilization, a prominent archaeologist said in comments  read more »

Dozens of Greek and Armenian priests and worshippers exchanged blows in Christianity's holiest shrine on Palm Sunday, and pummeled police with palm fronds when they tried to break up the brawl.  read more »

Octavius-Caesar Augustus probably never knew that his wise rule set up peaceful political and social climates that were ideal for Christ’s birth, and for the later spread of the early church.

Australian astronomers who charted the night sky 2,000 years ago claim that Jesus Christ was born on June 17 and that the Star of Bethlehem was a conjunction of two planets.

Professor Michael Jursa came across a name - Nabu-sharrussu-ukin, described there in a hand 2,500 years old, as 'the chief eunuch' of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon. According  read more »

As it turns out, the Da Vinci code is *not* the end of the world! Go fig.
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A 2003 study from Harvard University’s Robert J. Barro and Rachel M. McCleary found that the economy strengthens as belief in heaven or hell increases, but weakens with increased church attendance.

At first called "Dylan's God-Awful Gospel" by his most loyal fans, Bob Dylan's Jesus Years are today regarded as among the best of his career.  read more »

The pastor of a Greek Orthodox church in Lowell says a silver box containing a 2,000-year-old bone from one of the apostles has been stolen.The Rev.  read more »

The introduction to the 2006 edition of the Book of Mormon has a new word: among.It sounds trivial, but to some it represents a huge change to teachings that have been passed on for genera  read more »

A survey found 27 per cent of Britons aged 18 and over were unable to identify Bethlehem as Jesus's birth place, while the figure rose to 36 per cent of people aged between 18 and 24.<  read more »

The discovery of a 2,000-year-old toilet at one of the world's most important archaeological sites is focusing renewed interest on a question that has preoccupied scholars for more than half a century: Who lived at Qumran?

Looks like it was the Essenes after all.  read more »

Mexico on Wednesday learned that the father of the nation's independence movement did not die excommunicated nearly 200 years ago, clearing a stain from his legacy ahead of the 2010 bi  read more »

The Lutheran Reformation is compared to the bottomless pit in Revelation 9. But the time to celebrate it is coming.

A 1500 year old group of petroglyphs have been vandalized, and locals blame a local Inuit Christian group.

The University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) has started a minor in "Christianity and Culture."

It actually took several hundred years for the life and teachings of Jesus to develop into a religion about Jesus.

Or so says the CNN documentary, "After Jesus, the First Christians." Well, it looks to be more like an infomercial for liberal theology and revisionist history, but I haven't seen it and have no desire to--I don't expect anything new that I haven't seen 100 times before.  read more »

Unique silver coins with the effigy of Christ sitting in a throne have been discovered in Veliki Preslav - the second capital of the First Bulgarian Kingdom.

William Blake, who was born in 1757 and died in 1827, really meant to convey that Jesus did come to England before he commenced his ministry in the Holy Land. Nowhere in the Bible is there  read more »

Now, a recently released documentary, "Jesus: The Lost Years," attempts to fill in the gaps of those silent years using oral histories, archaeological evidence and writings contained in Christian  read more »

I have never, and I mean never, seen a documentary that so deliberately and consistently uses circular reasoning, ad hominem attacks, unfounded assertions, straw-man arguments, and general poor reasoning.  read more »

A team of scientists led by renowned French marine archaeologist Franck Goddio recently announced that they have found a bowl, dating to between the late 2nd century B.C.  read more »

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." So said Albert Einstein, and his famous aphorism has been the source of endless debate between believers and non-believers wantin  read more »

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany says the new European Union constitution needs some reference to God and Christianity.

What did George Washington really believe? Was he a deist or Christian or something else?

Bethlehem of Judea, located in the West Bank, has traditionally been accepted by Christians as the town where Jesus was born.  read more »

The Life of Jesus film crew has gained rare access to an archaeological find that cements historical evidence early Christians worshiped Jesus as divine.

Status:Passed House (Bipartisan support.) It's a done deal. You can now legally say, "Merry Christmas." Thoughts?

In 1904, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was in a battle with the federal government over the church's definition of marriage -- one man, many wives.  read more »

July 9 is the 300th anniversary of Lutherans in India. This week marks a week-long tribute to Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, the first Protestant (Lutheran) missionary to India.

For years Colorado Springs has been the center of the Evangelical universe. Is it still?

After building a career and religious following on the apparent remains of Jesus’ brother James, an antiques dealer is in court, accused of forging the most important artifact in the history of Chri  read more »

The church where the tradition of celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25 may have begun was built near a pagan shrine as part of an effort to spread Christianity, a leading Italian scholar says.

Still, even after the furor over the film faded, the questions it raised about the tomb unearthed in 1980 continued to make waves among archeologists and Biblical scholars.  read more »

New film documents discovery of Jerusalem cave containing ten caskets believed to hold remains of Jesus, Mary, Mary Magdalene and others

OK, but there are a few problems here:  read more »

The Gospel According to the Beatles by Steve Turner reveals that John Lennon at one point considered himself a Christian and had corresponded with Oral Roberts, among others.

The fictional King Solomon's Mines held a treasure of gold and diamonds, but archaeologists say the real mines may have supplied the ancient king with copper.

The battle for the most-tilted-tower title has gotten downright medieval, with a 13th-century German church flattening the circa-1372 Leaning Tower of Pisa's record, Guinness World Rec  read more »

It's a new Da Vinci code, but this time it could be for real.  read more »

At SamBloodRoyal.com one gets an opportunity to see the family tree of Samuel Tippit, an individual with Merovingian roots, (which refers to a prominent French royal family).  read more »

Israeli police have broken up a brawl among rival monks in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, believed the site of Jesus's crucifixion, burial and resurrection.

Painstakingly transcribed from hundreds of fragile, handwritten pages, the 500-page volume builds on decades of historical scholarship to provide a more accurate and complete look at the early church  read more »

the General Assembly of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC) and Church World Service (CWS), holding its annual meeting here November 6-8, urged the U.S.  read more »

New book by Robert Korczynski, "Buddha's Big Foot," presents the well-documented evidence that a Jewish man was not the first person to speak the words of Jesus; all of the, "New Testament  read more »

Christ through the ages: Now comes a new exhibition at the BYU Museum of Art that visualizes the arc of Jesus' life while chronicling the way Christian artists have portrayed him over the centuries.  read more »

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