| 单词 | Christianity |
| 例句 | When we came back—long before my father came back from work—she and I began discussing Christianity while she cooked. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Maria had grown up Calvinist, a form of Protestant Christianity with a deep distrust of frivolity and vanity. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I stood onstage and declared my new Christianity, in front of hundreds of other kids. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Their brows shiny with perspiration, the evangelists sat speechless as Limela unleashed his blasphemous tirade, drawing parallel after parallel between Christianity and witchcraft. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She was determined to know more about Christianity, it seemed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After a page-long digression on pacifism, Christianity, and the Roman Empire, Keegan returns to what is wrong with Clausewitz’s dictum and with the modern understanding of war it captures. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He also began to have doubts that Christianity was the religion. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And, of course, in the shape of sermons, Christianity provided regular formal occasions for public speaking. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z They accused him of being a convert to Christianity and a spy for South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Christianity is not about getting healthy, it’s about getting saved,” Crease said, summarizing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As a result, remote India was insulated from the rise of Christianity and the fall of Rome in the fourth and fifth centuries AD. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Beginning with Pope Urban II, the church leadership and the European monarchies sought to bring Christianity as far East as possible and to take over Muslim-controlled trade routes in the process. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Missionaries were allowed in to tame the pagans, and the Christianity and education they brought flourished. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Renowned educator Horace Mann saw phrenology as “the guide to philosophy and the handmaiden of Christianity,” and Horace Greeley of “Go West, young man” fame advocated phrenology tests for all railroad engineers. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Only one religion—Islam—had the power to stand and fight the white man’s Christianity for a thousand years'. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Choose your question wisely, and then examine how Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity attempt to answer it. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Despite the proselytizing of the Mbekela brothers, my father remained aloof from Christianity and instead reserved his own faith for the great spirit of the Xhosas, Qamata, the God of his fathers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Such threats drove me further away from the few churches in the neighbourhood, and served to reinforce my own skepticism about Christianity. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Catholicism, the genesis of Christianity as we know it to be presently constituted, with its hierarchy, was conceived in Africa—by those whom the Christian church calls “The Desert Fathers.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Those terms have special meaning to societies in which Christianity is the dominant religion and are commonly used even in places where it is not. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Bach’s Lutheran Christianity, unlike the Papal Catholicism with which Galileo Galilei battled, was at ease with scientific investigation and the widening education of its laity - indeed, it positively encouraged it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Maybe you know that Rastafari is a small offshoot of the three main Abrahamic religions—Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z For example, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all refer to covenants made between God and people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I also keep lecturing her nonstop about the flaws in Christianity, quoting Freud, Feuerbach, and Darwin, but it doesn't stop the churchgoing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The struggle, therefore, that now begins in the world is extremely complex, involving the historical role of Christianity in the realm of power—that is, politics—and in the realm of morals. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z During his entire advance through history, he has been waving the banner of Christianity . . . and carrying in his other hand the sword and the flintlock. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Communism and Christianity, at least in Africa, were not mutually exclusive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After my mother and I have finished discussing obligatory family news, he will approach me and wonder: When was Christianity introduced to the Asian continent? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They were in the tiny Church of the Men—a chapel as ancient as Christianity in the islands, though it was scarcely twenty feet square. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z One possible explanation for this may be that the Western branch of Christianity took certain elements of its note-family system from the Eastern Byzantine system of modes, called Oktoechos. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The inhabitants of Europe practiced a variety of religions prior to encountering Christianity. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Because of the influence of the church in Europe, Christianity came to be identified with being European, being light-skinned. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Some said he had been murdered by Cossacks; for a time there was even a rumor that he had been converted to Christianity and had gone to live in France. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z If Hinduism flows placidly like the Ganges, then Christianity bustles like Toronto at rush hour. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The Kingdom of Armenia, for example, established Christianity as its official religion in 301, and Armenians held on to their religious independence even when they were subsumed into the later Persian and Arabic Empires. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In the realm of power, Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty—necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Father spoke slowly, as if to a half-wit, “Elections are good, and Christianity is good. Both are good.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, ever since white people showed up and brought along their Christianity and their fears of eccentricity, Indians have gradually lost all of their tolerance. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z But the arguments and the very language were identical, except that Jackson used Christianity to justify enslavement of the Africans, while the African used Islam to justify enslavement of Christians. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z These campaigns were called the Crusades and were framed as religious wars between Christianity and Islam. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Did the existence of Indians negate the Bible, and Christianity with it? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Research shows that these religions differed from Christianity in many ways, including the power that women could hold in rituals. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In fact, in the white man’s hands, in the white man’s interpretation . . . where has Christianity brought this world ? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z With the triumph of Christianity, interest in the body and the world plummeted. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z I hope Reverend Hunt is not too disappointed that his first time trying to convert a Virginia native to Christianity did not work out. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z It was not, of course, unknown: Christianity, after all, was named after Christ. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But history strongly suggests that the ultimate goal for the church and the European rulers was about more than winning souls to Christianity. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Although many commoners converted to Christianity, they held on to many aspects of their pre-Christian life. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Churches, too, for the Nazis declare that even Jews who convert to Christianity are still Jews. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z In Iran, if you convert from Islam to Christianity or Judaism, it’s a capital crime. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Unitarians did not stand out in society as heretics, but the faith was easy to live with if you felt uncomfortable with a more serious, stricter branch of Christianity. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For me, his powerful presence embodied all that was alluring in Christianity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I decided that if he asked, I would 110 percent convert to Christianity for him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z When Christianity swept through the West, it became closely tied to the Aristotelian view of the universe and the proof of God’s existence. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z It was evident that the majority of the audience knew little about Christianity. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a very extensive literature devoted to the relationship between Christianity and science in the early modern period. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Conversion from the old religions to Christianity took several forms across Europe: sometimes through peaceful persuasion, sometimes through conquest. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Christ crucified rules, and it may be that the true business of modern Christianity is to crucify him again and again so that he can never get a word out of his mouth. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z People don’t know that Islam is one of the three Abrahamic faiths, Christianity and Judaism being the other two. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I never failed to cite that even Billy Graham, challenged in Africa, had himself made the distinction, “I believe in Christ, not Christianity.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z You kinda have to know the history of Islam—which Sima knew—and compare it to her experience in England as she heard about Christianity. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Indeed the white missionaries—valiant men like Dr. Livingstone—heard the call and braved treacherous seas and jungles and disease to bring our ancestors Christianity. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They taught reading and writing and arithmetic; they also taught Christianity and other Western ways of thinking. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z How could Christianity be the one true religion? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z You even are foolish enough to believe that nothing is right but Christianity! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The blackboard had fixed upon it in permanent paint, on one side, the United States flag and under it the words “Slavery, Suffering and Death,” then the word “Christianity” alongside the sign of the Cross. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She told him about her crisis, how she had been disappointed with aspects of the Christianity she knew, in some of the things she’d seen, in fact, at his own church. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He made it a personal crusade to visit shebeens regularly, and there, amid intense beer-drinking and boisterous talk, denounce Christianity as a “clever ploy through which whites sought to keep blacks forever slaves.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the centuries that followed, there were two key influences on the way rhetoric developed: Christianity and the written word. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He was not dismissing God altogether, nor was he dismissing Christianity. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Though baptized, I still continued being skeptical about Christianity. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z To understand the rise of Christianity or the French Revolution, it is not enough to comprehend the interaction of genes, hormones and organisms. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The wise person would clearly choose Christianity instead of atheism. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I began telling her about my previous encounters with Christianity in the homes of some of my playmates. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It's time for me to drag her out of the American deep end—which apparently now includes Christianity. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The young Jewish girl who at one time could not allow herself to walk into a gentile church now couldn’t do without it; her Orthodox Jewish ways had long since translated themselves into full-blown Christianity. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Christianity initially rejected zero, but trade would soon demand it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In a sober ceremony, the Mexica abjured their old religion and embraced Christianity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “The book shows,” Bobby wrote, “that Christianity itself is just a Jewish hoax and one more Jewish tool for their conquest of the world.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Christianity was born there and in cities near the Mediterranean. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Sick as he is, Reverend Hunt calms Master Wingfield down and talks about how God wants us to bring Christianity to the New World. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z History marched on: Christianity swept through Europe, the Roman Empire fell, the Library at Alexandria burned, and the Dark Ages began. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Christianity and totemism and ancestor worship . . . extinct languages, such as Zuni and Spanish and Athapascan . . . pumas, porcupines and other ferocious animals . . . infectious diseases . . . priests . . . venomous lizards ...” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z South Africa is a mix of the old and the new, the ancient and the modern, and South African Christianity is a perfect example of this. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Take Ectogenesis. Pfitzner and Kawaguchi had got the whole technique worked out. But would the Governments look at it? No. There was something called Christianity. Women were forced to go on being viviparous.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, he does some research and finds Evangelical Christianity, and it takes him on a journey he did not know he needed. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z In spite of these hardships, most Jews remained faithful to their religion and resisted the pressure to convert to Christianity. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Though my parents differed on many things, including the usefulness of Christianity to black people, they agreed on one thing: the power of witchcraft. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea was simple: Christianity depended on belief in a spiritual world beyond the material world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Even Jews who had converted to Christianity or did not otherwise practice the Jewish faith could not join. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I wondered then if, without the language barrier, my classmates and I could have done a better job making sense of Christianity, an idea that sounds pretty far-fetched to begin with. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Probably because Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are sister religions, and you always have the worst fights with your sister. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z But we know a lot about Christianity from our grandparents. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z At its heart lies a theory Wagner drew from Schopenhauer, from Buddhism and from Christianity, that self-enlightenment, or personal redemption, is achieved by denying oneself gratification, resisting temptation and seeking an understanding of fellow-suffering. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Benton smiled back awkwardly, thinking that perhaps Rameel had convinced himself that he could convert tribal peoples to a complex faith like Christianity in as little as twenty minutes. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “Why wouldn’t I? He was the last one who worshipped the Olympian gods, before Constantine came along and adopted Christianity.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Faced with the challenge of explaining the cornerstone of Christianity, we did what any self-respecting group of people might do. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Everywhere else in northwestern Europe the early records, the traditions, the songs and stories, were obliterated by the priests of Christianity, who felt a bitter hatred for the paganism they had come to destroy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Mommy has changed, changed from the time she adopted Christianity back in the 1940s. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Christianity had made black men fuzzy, nebulous, confused in their thinking. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I perceived, as I read, how the collective white man had been actually nothing but a piratical opportunist who used Faustian machinations to make his own Christianity his initial wedge in criminal conquests. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to relegate Christianity to the level of folklore, so I could deal with its fantastic claims about the nature of man and sin. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But on another occasion, she asked: “What is Christianity? Why is it so dangerous that people are killed for it?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z My mom helped with the wedding and went to Ellie’s church and learned about Christianity. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I exclaimed joyously at the prospects of going to the tent, but I quickly checked my enthusiasm when I thought of my father’s vehement opposition to other religions, especially Christianity. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re taught that Western civilization originated in the Near East, was brought to brilliant heights in Europe by the Greeks and Romans, and produced three of the world’s great religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "I'm not a fan of Christianity," I say. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This was a nerve shock even to me, to hear that the villagers thought Christianity was like some old picture show that was way out of date. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He enjoyed some of the philosophies of Buddhism and Christianity, and he still felt at home, culturally, in Judaism. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Structurally—this somewhat rudimentary argument went—Marxism was a simple substitute for Christianity. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We either converted to Christianity or remained tribal. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty percent of Kerala’s population were Syrian Christians, who believed that they were descendants of the one hundred Brahmins whom St. Thomas the Apostle converted to Christianity when he traveled East after the Resurrection. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like saying you are Christian and you practice Christianity. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z By the eleventh century CE, Christianity in the form of Catholicism was the dominant religion in Europe, and church leaders held a great deal of political power. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I would explain that it was our belief that Christianity did not perform what Christ taught. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z For me, Christianity was not so much a system of beliefs as it was the powerful creed of a single man: Reverend Matyolo. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, in the realm of morals the role of Christianity has been, at best, ambivalent. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Christianity not only imposed an abbreviated chronology; the liturgy was constructed around an endless cycle, the annual recurrence of the life of Christ. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For a long time I didn’t understand why so many black people had abandoned their indigenous faith for Christianity. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z You can go right back to the very beginning of Christianity. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The detonating device was publication of a letter Jefferson had written in 1801 to Joseph Priestley, the English scientist and renowned critic of Christianity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But also upsetting: Christianity decreed that people deserve punishment for offending God, Newman said. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And my father’s constant preaching about how schools were, like Christianity, simply another white man’s tool of keeping the black man down didn’t help much either. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I hope you can find some consolation from Christianity’s affirmation that death is not the end. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It could be argued that it began long before Christianity arrived in a boat and seeped into Kerala like tea from a teabag. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Doubting that Christianity or Protestantism was a precondition for the Scientific Revolution leaves plenty of scope for studying the interaction between faith and science: e.g. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Before Christianity came to Southern Sudan, people there believed in witches, and they thought that illnesses came from being cursed or bewitched. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Cassius Clay, being a Muslim, didn’t need to be told how white Christianity had dealt with the American black man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Finding is better than mending; ending is better . . .” “There was a thing, as I’ve said before, called Christianity.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Only Islam could keep white Christianity at bay. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Chapman's depiction of fundamentalist Christianity is harsh and on the money. Sundance 2011: fewer stars, more ideas 2011-01-30T00:06:59Z The tradition of godparents goes back to the early centuries of the church, when converts to Christianity were required to confess their purity. Family Matters: The Godparent Trap 2010-05-28T22:39:00Z Bentley also turned his prodigious learning to delivering a series of lectures endowed to discredit every religion except Christianity. ‘Philology’ by James Turner explains what happened to a discipline that flourished Legend says a heavenly voice spoke to him about living a more holy life and he converted to Christianity after that revelation. Jägermeister logo does not offend Christians, court rules 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z As the Romans receded, Christianity tiptoed in, and a church replaced the baths, probably in the early fifth century. The Legend and Lore of Notre-Dame de Reims 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The appeal of Drumpfism is its similarity to Christianity, the predominant religion among American conservatives. Donald Trump thinks he’s a god. Even worse, his supporters agree 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z Compare the diversity in the pages of Christianity Today to that of Sports Illustrated. The Bible’s racist monstrosities: How the “word of God” has been — and still is — used to oppress 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z A resident of Aden, a regional capital in southern Yemen, Nader converted to Christianity from Islam more than two decades ago. Homosexuality, God and ISIS: The secret life of a lonely gay Christian in Yemen 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The overheated chops licking over allegations involving a family so eager to campaign against gay rights and reproductive choice, one so heavily self-identified as espousing a rigidly wholesome version of Christianity, began immediately. Hate-watching the Duggar sex scandal: Feeding bottomless appetites for hypocrisy, schadenfreude and shame 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The dance draws energy from the tension between secular and spiritual, from the collision of African religions and Christianity. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center 2012-12-12T22:56:42Z “These laws are really important for the history of Judaism, for Christianity, for the tradition,” he said. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Although born into the Jewish faith, he converted to Christianity and was a frequent contributor to the Trinity Broadcast Network. Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Star of ‘77 Sunset Strip’ and ‘The F.B.I.’, Is Dead at 95 2014-05-03T05:34:53Z "Rick and Morty," however, consistently takes potshots at Christianity and the inanity of believing in the Almighty – any version of the Almighty. How "Rick and Morty" and "Loki" built thoughtful altars to apathy for everything we hold dear 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z “That is perhaps the original bond between Judaism, Christianity and Islam,” Raskin said. A rabbi decided to sponsor an Afghan refugee family. When he needed a hand, he brought in a mosque and a church. 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z But underneath she was kind and I've always insisted her Christianity isn't played for laughs. How we made: June Brown and John Altman on EastEnders 2012-12-10T17:28:13Z Christianity has been the predominant religion by far in this country, for centuries. Stephen Fry takes US sitcom role and shark-attack jokes bite the dust 2013-03-19T15:20:24Z A typical Easter feast includes lamb, which symbolizes Jesus' self-sacrifice as the "Lamb of God" in Christianity and the spring equinox in Paganism; and ham, which symbolizes luck. Be sure to grab these 6 tasty helpers from Trader Joe's for a delicious, hassle-free Easter feast 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The film relates the tale as a detective story, but one that is also a sociological study — of a region that takes its Christianity seriously, and of individual families in a hardscrabble area. ‘Little Hope Was Arson,’ a Documentary of Texas and Religion 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Islam was the glue binding the Ottoman empire; a forcibly recruited unit, the janissaries, were converts from Christianity. Turkey: epic movie highlights Ottoman conquest 2012-03-02T10:46:04Z It's set in the mid-'90s, when a wave of fundamentalist Islamic terrorism swept across Algeria, making life there exceedingly difficult for foreigners, especially when they represented both Christianity and the legacy of French imperialism. "Of Gods and Men": Christian monks in a Muslim land 2011-02-25T02:01:00Z This is a desire that predates Christianity: though no one knows when Jesus was actually born, December 25th was likely chosen as Christmas because it coincided with preexisting Roman festivals of light, merriment and present-giving. My atheist Christmas in China 2013-12-24T00:00:00Z Right-wing newspapers following the saga wrote that casting a black Christ “was an offense against Christianity,” he said. A Director Asks, Would Jesus Stand With Today’s Migrants? 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Inside the Church, they covered up the signs and symbols of Christianity. Don’t stop believin’: Do atheists need a church? 2013-04-28T16:00:00Z The Renaissance was such a moment, as the metaphysical reality of Christianity began to give way to that of empirical science and perceptual experience. Art Review: ‘Bellini, Titian and Lotto’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-07-05T21:59:59Z Dating from c AD800, it symbolizes the power of learning, the impact of Christianity on the life of the country, and the spirit of artistic imagination. The Book of Kells - in pictures 2012-12-14T12:03:23Z “Using Christianity to make this argument about Israeli politics is quite audacious.” Amos Oz on His Novel ‘Judas,’ Which Challenges Views of a Traitor 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z On the other side, the Taiping rebels, fueled by their messianic religious ideology that contained a whiff of Christianity, who wanted to reclaim China from the small alien Manchu elite. Books of The Times: ?Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom,? by Stephen R. Platt 2012-02-06T22:05:43Z In other words — words David wouldn’t use, since neither he nor anyone else seems to have heard of Christianity — who will write his gospel? J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z But not only that: even her dearest friends are instantly pulled away from her, all because her chosen religion is Christianity. A Brighter Fear by Kerry Drewery - review 2012-08-01T14:00:00Z Young people wanted to leave the church, but not all of them wanted to abandon Christianity. Broadway Revival of ?Godspell? 2011-11-04T14:59:10Z He founded Mizmor in 2012 while struggling with his Christianity and began writing songs as a means of grieving his disintegrating faith. Review | In chaotic times, Mizmor’s heavy metal is a model of composure 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z More than that, it belittles the radicalism of Christianity in favour of a sweeping and superficial sameness. And Man Created God by Selina O'Grady - review 2012-12-20T07:00:02Z As Nixey puts it, the triumph of Christianity heralded the subjugation of the other. How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z After a few desperate searches, while the best-selling author and challenger of conservative Christianity tried to stay calm, her husband, a self-described tech consultant, located her work in a hidden file. On the Best Seller List, Rachel Held Evans’s Legacy Endures 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Deck the Halls was a Welsh new year carol appended to Christmas when translated into English, and still, of course, has nothing overtly to do with Christianity. Faithful or not, all can rejoice in carols ? hymns drenched in our folk memory 2010-12-07T19:59:00Z This demonstrates an awareness that the bones of saints would be sought, traded and sometimes stolen by the faithful, even within a few years of Christianity’s foundation. Relic hunter: A missing Christian relic, the fall of Nazi Germany and a mystery that flummoxed historians for centuries 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z It will faceoff against "Scandalous," a musical with book and lyrics by TV host Kathie Lee Gifford about the American evangelical leader Aimee Semple McPherson, who preached about a return to simple biblical Christianity. Big-name actors, writers take the stage for new Broadway season 2012-08-30T18:37:04Z By then, he had converted to Christianity, and he said he repented of his career as a Khmer Rouge murderer. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z He compares his view of God to his cynicism toward government institutions, the justice system and Christianity. “An outburst of emotions black America can relate to”: Kendrick Lamar’s newest release feels like the back story to his masterpiece, “To Pimp a Butterfly” 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The idea of militant Christianity here is as odd as the idea of militant Buddhism, or militant Zoroastrianism, or militant Animism, though why this should be the case I have no idea. Religious censorship crushes creativity. So is it ever right to ban art? 2012-08-10T21:30:01Z Surprised by joy … CS Lewis, pictured in 1946, converted from atheism to philosophical theism and then to 'mere Christianity'. CS Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet by Alister McGrath – review 2013-05-08T09:00:04Z Like the tide ebbs and flows, so does the point where Islam and Christianity meet. Discovering Sicily’s layers of culture 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z It is a holdover of ancient Slavic rites of spring, which were adapted into Christianity’s timeline, linking pagan spring rituals with Shrovetide and Lent. 10 traditional winter festivals in Europe 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z The film goes all the way back to a videotape of Perry's dad preaching Pentecostal Christianity when she was child, his easy crowd control possibly the source of her hamminess. Katy Perry's 'Part of Me' less than the sum 2012-07-03T23:09:04Z The church doesn’t adhere to a specific strain of Christianity and encourages followers to unleash their creative spirits. Los Angeles Churches Make Worship...Hip? 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z This is probably special pleading, but both Judaism and Christianity emphasise the importance and sacredness of the family, and the authority and status of women within the home. The Book of Genesis, part 6: Patriarchs and others 2011-01-18T12:37:35Z A new PPP survey reveals that Republicans are afflicted most, with 44 percent now favoring installing Christianity as the United States’ official religion. They really want a theocracy: The GOP candidates who want to make you bow to their lord 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z They have their moments, but, on the whole, it doesn’t look as if Christianity were a good influence on Canova’s creative imagination. Art Review: ‘Antonio Canova: The Seven Last Works’ Debuts at the Met 2014-01-23T22:50:58Z Well, to me, it kind of goes back to the Christianity thing and my own family. I unleashed my freak! 2012-10-14T00:00:00Z KC reminds us of the power of three, which saturates culture in variants such as the Holy Trinity of Christianity, to the simple incantation of three-time’s-a-charm common to fairytales. Donald Trump’s “insult haiku”: Scholars are having a field day parsing the poetics of Trump’s “idiolect” 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Does the book presume that a widespread, mainstream Christianity is necessary to have a thriving United States? ArtsBeat: Ross Douthat Talks About the State of American Christianity 2012-04-26T14:36:32Z In between, the author swivels among civilizations, depicting Jewish life in the ancient Near East, in the Roman and Hellenistic world, and mingled with early Christianity and Islam. Books of The Times: Simon Schama’s ‘The Story of the Jews’ 2014-03-10T20:50:31Z The story of the Jefferson Bible, as the refashioned scripture became known, did not fit into Ms. Mellowes’s documentary about nascent Christianity. Faith and Politics, a Rocky Romance 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z And Christianity comes late, in the 5th century. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Sicily reflects the culture of Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Normans, and Saracens as well as that of mediaeval and feudal Christianity. From the archive, 5 July 1943: Editorial: The risk of bombing cultural treasures 2012-07-05T06:30:00Z Christianity replaced happiness with salvation, a life of denial for the promise of eternal bliss after death. Pascal Bruckner: 'Happiness is a moment of grace' 2011-01-23T00:05:40Z Christianity, the dominant force in European society for the last two millennia, owed much of its early uptake to the preaching and writings of Paul. Summer readings: In the Steps of St Paul by HV Morton 2011-08-18T11:41:01Z It was thus a fundamental tenet of Christianity that not only was the gospel for all, no matter how they were disenfranchised, but that it had a particular simplicity to it. Christianity: a faith for the simple 2011-01-31T13:00:01Z Certainly, the novel needn’t champion Christianity, but nor should it default to clichés about belief and believers. Joyce Carol Oates’s Novel Plumbs the Depths of America’s Abortion War 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z We talk a lot in Christianity about tolerance. What comedian Pete Holmes knows about the self and love, and self love 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z My own personal life is too strange, alien – and in the eyes of many of them – deeply sinful for anything I might say about sexual ethics or Christianity to be relevant to other people's concerns. Look to the gospels, not the pope 2010-12-02T12:21:00Z But the tradition of stomachaches at this time of year probably predates Christianity. On ‘Fat Tuesday,’ food takes center stage 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Whether “Grantchester” glamorizes Christianity, though, is a matter of ongoing philosophical inquiry. The Unholy Pleasures of “Grantchester,” The Original Hot-Priest Show 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z “Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it’s important that we all realize that,” he said. Collective consciousness to replace God: author Dan Brown 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z With its supporting cast of ambitious megachurch pastors and naïve churchgoers, this might look like a satire of religion, or at least of certain aspects of 21st-century American Christianity. Review: ‘Don Verdean,’ a Sendup of Ambitious Pastors and the Lure of Religious Relics 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Over the years, Christianity began to have an influence over the institution of marriage, “Christianizing” some of the harsher variations of it found in Western Europe. Jesus would back gay marriage 2012-09-16T12:00:00Z “Family” offers Mr. Perry’s signature ingredients: multiple subplots; a Southern setting; and broad comedy, florid melodrama and inspirational Christianity, tossed together with an almost slapdash élan. | 'Madea?s Big Happy Family': A Fractious Family With Cancer on the Agenda 2011-04-24T21:46:55Z Christianity has a deeply ambivalent relationship with silence. Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch – review 2013-03-29T08:01:01Z Greig, having been brought up an atheist, converted to Christianity when she was 30, around the same time her parents became ill. Tamsin Greig: 'I always think I'll never work again' 2011-03-03T21:00:01Z What about him exemplifies Christianity and earns him your support? Jerry Falwell Jr. can’t imagine Trump ‘doing anything that’s not good for the country’ 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z This is not a speculation about the beginnings of Christianity, a claim to have uncovered the real, suppressed history of Jesus. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Vidal couldn’t have foreseen it because he still saw Christianity as a kind of ineluctable force in America, particularly among small-town conservatives, and because Rand’s “philosophy” couldn’t have been more anti-Christian. Media, morality and the neighbor’s cow: When did Ayn Rand become the Republican Party’s bible? 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Tolkien, a devout Catholic, was instrumental in re-introducing his previously agnostic friend to Christianity while the pair were academics at Oxford prior to the second world war. Theological JRR Tolkein biopic secures Expendables 2 director 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z A Christianity centered on the Great Commission, by contrast has the following defining features. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z But just when their friendship catches your interest, Mr. Dowling reveals that he isn’t really interested in exploring its possibilities at all; he’s just using it to sell Christianity. Review: ‘Where Hope Grows,’ a Baseball Career Lost and Relationships Found 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Her material is 100 percent clean and strongly influenced by Christianity. Chonda Pierce: How the Top-Selling Female Comedian Ever Is Still an Outsider 2013-12-17T17:06:47Z Alfred was a visionary driven by three ambitions: codifying a formal set of laws, promoting the spread of Christianity and uniting Wessex with the neighboring kingdoms of Mercia, East Anglia and Northumbria. Cornwell’s ‘The Pagan Lord’: a bloody battle for England 2014-01-22T22:29:30Z If you take a look at the fundamentalist expressions of all three desert religions — Christianity, Judaism and Islam — all three are still religions of scarcity. "As a Woman" author Paula Stone Williams: I was "unaware of my male privilege" until transition 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z In “The Benedict Option,” Dreher draws lessons from that experience and from his research on ancient Christianity and modern efforts to build an authentic spiritual community. Conservative author Rod Dreher’s paradox: Compassion in St. Francisville and cruelty in America 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Beyond the Bible,” will trace the early history of Christianity and again be supervised by the producer Mark Burnett, in partnership with his wife, the actress Roma Downey, NBC announced on Monday. ‘The Bible,’ a Hit on Cable, Will Have Its Sequel on NBC 2013-07-01T18:04:41Z Instead it is to recognise that there is much within the logic and language of Christianity to justify intolerance. The political Bible, part 4: toleration 2011-08-29T08:59:00Z What Christianity calls us into is an experience in which we cannot help but find beauty and meaning in our lives. Christians should abandon Christianity 2013-04-21T16:00:00Z Sure, they want a response to the dogma of Christianity. Talking about God with Martin Sheen 2010-09-18T23:01:00Z In other words, the central story of Christianity, the story of a perfect Jesus who becomes a perfect human sacrifice and saves us all relies on the earlier creation story. Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z Centuries later, Christianity promised everybody eternal life, but where and how you might be spending it was a matter of fiery debate. Review | Does living forever sound ideal? These 5 new books will change your mind. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Though he repudiated Christianity, Gauguin's eye for visionary experience was that of a mystic as much as of an anthropologist of "primitive" beliefs. Gauguin: Into the mystic 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z "Well, I think it has a lot to do with Christianity." Catherine Hakim: charm school marm 2011-08-19T22:01:41Z These “covers” were intended to both teach and entertain — to attract worshippers and spread Christianity. Weezer’s cover album: Is the rock band honoring or exploiting the originals? 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The Holocaust was not just about religion –converting to Christianity, or only being "part" Jewish, did not protect people from the Nazis. Suspending Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t help anyone fight against bigotry 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z But beginning with the piercing parable that opens the second act — about whether Judaism, Christianity or Islam is the true faith — the play grows increasingly engrossing. Review: ‘Nathan the Wise’ Brings a Morality Tale to Today 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z “Christianity, Catholicism, is not a collection of prohibitions; it’s a positive option,” Benedict said before his trip to Bavaria in 2006. Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z I am not comfortable with the more aggressive forms of American Christianity - evangelical and fundamental. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z A church was first built there in the 4th century under Constantine the Great, the Roman emperor who converted to Christianity. 'Walking in the Lord's footsteps' in Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z It refused to evolve and reconsider the humanity of other people in ways that other parts of Christianity did, in light of the civil rights movement and the women's rights movement. "They cannot survive without fear": A heretic on leaving the evangelical church 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z If he sounds peeved, well, it’s hard being an atheist in the United States, where plenty of people behave in decidedly un-Christian ways, but to speak ill of Christianity or other religions can be career-ending. Atheist TV Has Its Premiere, on Roku and Online 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z The right-wing is tied together by Republican politics, god, Christianity, capitalism, and white supremacy. W. Kamau Bell on what unifies the right: "Christianity, capitalism and white supremacy" 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z It becomes more of a cultural or civil Christianity, rather than an actual theological thing. Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z The vitriol aimed at Ali, therefore, derived from Americans who considered Islam a destructive alternative to Christianity, and from fears that the Middle East had succumbed to the influence of the Soviet Union. “They’ve got to kill me. They can’t afford to let me live”: Inside the amazing friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z In her 1968 collection of essays, “Victorian Minds,” she praised the role that evangelical Christianity had played in supporting mass democracy. Gertrude Himmelfarb, Conservative Historian of Ideas, Dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Later, in his explicitly “spiritual” manifestations — the avowed Christianity, for example, or the reclaimed Jewish heritage — he tried to capture the spirit that had moved him, but the gift of prophecy had left him. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Christianity has, indeed, begun to look like Brenton's late, great obsession – a cohesive theme at last, or at least a hint that his Methodist upbringing is staging a surprise comeback. Howard Brenton 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z Lewis but cried foul at an aside by Mr. Dawkins about wanting to “destroy Christianity.” ArtsBeat Blog: For Richard Dawkins, Traditional Christmas Carols Trump Atheism 2011-12-16T22:35:54Z Gates interweaves his own childhood experiences with more than 400 years of history to analyze how Christianity, and the community of Black churches, helped create a culture that subverted centuries of oppression. 13 New Books to Watch For in February 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z A piece on a Christian rock festival – which seems to augur a straightforward piece of college-educated-liberal culture tourism – sidesteps touchingly into a memoir of Sullivan's own teenage involvement with evangelical Christianity. Pulphead: Dispatches from the Other Side of America by John Jeremiah Sullivan - review 2012-07-26T07:00:06Z Which means that, given Africa’s high birthrates, continued emigration and increasing rates of conversion to conservative Christianity, it may be poised to rejuvenate the countries that once colonized it, both religiously and demographically. Ross Douthat Has a Vision of America. It’s Grim. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z "You can't use Christianity as your rationale, and then refuse to engage in why it would exert so singular an influence." Catherine Hakim: charm school marm 2011-08-19T22:01:41Z The history of Christianity in Korea is unique in that it was not founded by Western missionaries. Pope Francis denounces wealth gap in open-air Seoul mass 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Aslan depicts earliest Christianity as surviving in two streams after Jesus: a Hellenistic movement headed by Paul, and a Jewish version headed by James. Books of The Times: Reza Aslan’s ‘Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth’ 2013-08-05T19:15:02Z This made them eager to convert Natives to Christianity, which they managed to do in some places. Why the Puritans cracked down on celebrating Christmas 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z For nearly a millennium the domed cathedral had been the epicenter of Orthodox Christianity. How Erdogan Reoriented Turkish Culture to Maintain His Power 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Eventually, Christianity came along, and appropriated the tradition into its own symbolism. Raccoons, rabbits and Sean Spicer: The camp and contradictions of the White House Easter Egg Roll 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z If you actually pay attention to white nationalists, you’ll quickly realize that they don’t support Christianity’s universal messages, he said. WATCH: Does Christianity offer a more inclusive worldview than secular conservatism? 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z In the same way the long-running animated series treats churchgoing and Christianity as part of Anytown, America's fabric, Youssef presents his family's connection to Islam as a balm seated in the chair next to folly. "Ramy" Season 2 benefits from the calm, charismatic guidance of Mahershala Ali, as do we all 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z As one admirer says to Langdon, the full flap this generates “reminds me of the Vatican denouncing your book ‘Christianity and the Sacred Feminine,’ which, in the aftermath, promptly became a best seller.” In Dan Brown’s ‘Origin,’ Robert Langdon Returns, With an A.I. Friend in Tow 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Trump's fascist appeal is of course tied to guns and nationalism and militant right-wing Christianity. Matthew Modine on America's love affair with guns & what people get wrong about "Full Metal Jacket" 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Particularly striking is the rapid conversion Christianity made in the east—right into modern-day China. Brilliant threads 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The intervening decades brought missionaries and Christianity, colonial efforts to restrict their inter-village wars and, more recently, Indonesian human rights abuses and a Papuan separatist movement. In Papua, Indonesia, a Visit to the Welcoming Dani People 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z In theory the characters line up in camps, with Adam and Holly wryly waving the banner of agnosticism, while the others toe the line of a literal-minded Christianity. Theater Review | 'Next Fall': At Helen Hayes, Taking on Religion From a Hospital Bed 2010-03-12T03:05:00Z “We want to create a tradition that allows us to connect with people who are like us, who we can share in our Christianity and the outdoors with,” she said. ‘Magic’ on the Slopes: In Vail, 2,000 Black Skiers Celebrate a Milestone 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Hey, liberals: You haven’t won the culture war Topics: , Christianity, culture wars, , , , , , This may come as news to you, but our country is severely divided. Hey, liberals: You haven’t won the culture war 2012-11-10T20:00:00Z Now I am an atheist after having served my time in the depths of fundamentalist Christianity. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z An article she wrote about her conversion became Christianity Today magazine’s most-read Web story in 2013, e-mailed all around in evangelical circles. Kirsten Powers: An antiabortion, antiwar liberal working for Fox News 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Omitted from this comment is the refreshing Christianity of Pope Francis. A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Eddie is not cynically marketing Christianity to a predominantly Christian country. The Coen Brothers’ Marvellous “Hail, Caesar!” 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z It's interesting that you mention Christianity because I was also struck by your references in this book to paganism. Liz Phair's "Horror Stories" chronicles the real ghosts that haunt us 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Many viewers were drawn in by the film’s portrayal of exorcism in Christianity. Exorcisms have been part of Christianity for centuries 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z A few years before, in 1984, my church took a busload of kids to see Mike Warnke, a former Satanist high priest who had converted to Christianity. What '80s kids also remember: On stranger danger, Satanic panic and generations of trickle-down fear 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z A grandson of Jewish converts to Christianity, Dr. Stern was baptized at birth but was nonetheless a target of Hitler’s anti-Semitic persecution. Fritz Stern, refugee and leading historian of Germany, dies at 90 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Why is it, then, that we’ve seen the right politicize Christianity so much more so than the left? “You want people like that to hate you”: Reza Aslan on Glenn Beck, that Fox News interview, and who gets to speak for Jesus 2014-04-20T10:59:00Z It didn't matter that expert after expert chimed in, disputing every element of Christianity, art, history, and even some very easily verifiable geography. I think Dan Brown turned my parents into QAnoners 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z “Sometimes people think the idea of Christianity is everything turns out well if you do the right thing,” says Dan Hyun, a pastor in Baltimore. Here are some good things about this year 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z The writers also recognize that it’s impossible to take a look at stratification in America through such a prism without examining the intersection of cultural conquest and monotheism, specifically American Christianity. A divine interlude in the tunnel of love: "Watchmen" and the intersection of comic books and faith 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Poring over the soggy pages of his children’s Bible, Little Jack isn’t converted to the environmental fatalism of evangelical Christianity; instead, he’s inspired to radical action. Review | Lydia Millet’s ‘A Children’s Bible’ is a blistering classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z For some, this might have reflected an irreverent rejection of Christianity itself, in light of its promotion of slavery and failure to promote liberation. Lil Nas X’s dance with the devil evokes tradition of resisting, mocking religious demonization 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Evangelicals don’t seem to care what these ordinary Christians think; no one tells stories about their achieving a proper understanding of Christianity on their deathbeds. The Fantasy of the Deathbed Conversion 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Successive votive offerings, mostly bronze coins and plants, were deposited until Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century A.D. These Bronze Statues Reveal Ancient Healing Rituals 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z He represents a brand of politicized Christianity that dominated the public discourse until the mainstream recognized what a dangerous fraud it really was around the end of the Bush era. Why Christian Right leader James Dobson blocked me on Twitter 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z Before Jesus became the man-god of Christianity, he was a brat. J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z What better way could there be to show that Christianity is an outdated cultish fringe with nothing of use to say to contemporary society? King James Bible: 'Twas a work most modern 2011-03-01T13:05:13Z Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University weighed in by saying “you don’t get to make up your own Christianity.” As a gay Christian, Pete Buttigieg's visibility gives me strength 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Religion in Europe waned because Christianity maintained a religious monopoly. Should atheists fight for religion in government? 2013-04-16T18:50:00Z Just as the history of Christianity is punctuated with the demonizing of numerous groups, so too is there a tradition of victims creatively rejecting and mocking such demonization. Lil Nas X’s dance with the devil evokes tradition of resisting, mocking religious demonization 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z She stopped trying to fit into a conservative brand of Christianity that didn’t seem to want her. Glennon Doyle chose honesty. Now fans are following her lead. 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z If you care about the influence of Christianity on U.S. politics, The Thermals might make you cry. What to See at Upstream: Day Two 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z The crusaders of the 13th century were so offended by the cathedral’s alien Eastern Christianity that they looted its treasures. Museums: In Turkey?s Museums, Sacred and Secular Interweave 2010-05-25T22:26:00Z He respects Said’s passionate faith but all but forces him to convert to Christianity. At the Spoleto Festival, Opera Is an Act of Liberation 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z And then there are the many public examples of evangelical Christianity’s disgraced ambassadors. My body was going nuts: How I thought about sex as a teenage evangelical virgin 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z The chime of metal instruments also announce the arrival of angels in Christianity. Explaining the Many References in the Movie 'mother!' 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Yet it has a firm grip on the past: it sees that Christianity is a religion of stories, layer on layer, right back to Christ's apostles. Our Church by Roger Scruton – review 2013-06-19T11:29:56Z The metaphysical struggle between good and evil, dark and light – which Christianity codifies as the birth of Jesus, the light that "shineth in darkness" – is enacted daily. Darkness in literature: Kathleen Jamie's Darkness and Light 2012-12-11T08:02:00Z So there ensued a three-year confrontation with how Christianity and racism were not practices alien to each other in that school. An architect of critical race theory: ‘We cannot allow all of the lessons from the civil rights movement forward to be packed up and put away for storage’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Egan pithily sums up the current state of Christianity in Europe: “Where the rules of the spiritual here and hereafter were shaped over centuries of bloodshed, it’s all a shrug.” Timothy Egan Makes Room for the Holy Spirit 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z But I am also a graduate of one of the top religious studies programs in the country, with an emphasis on Christianity and Mediterranean traditions. Atheists aren't fighting a "war on Christmas" — many of us even celebrate it 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z Teed called himself Koresh, a transliteration from the Hebrew version of the name Cyrus, and criticized mainstream Christianity as “the dead carcass of a once vital and active” faith. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Anderson doesn’t talk much, for instance, about evangelical Christianity or ultra-conservative politics, two psychoses to which I’ve spent my whole life watching Oklahoma give way. “Boom Town”: Is Oklahoma City the “Great Minor City” of America? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z “It was such a simple scene and such an obvious idea. It struck me – Christianity, what the hell is it about if it’s not this?” A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z He spent the next year consuming books about Christianity, by defenders of the faith and by critics. Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z Christianity appeared on a planet that had been, for at least 70,000 years, animist. How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Vickers described Christianity as “the rock” of his life and said that his purpose in singing was “trying to raise your eyes and your feelings and your emotions to look at the Divine.” Jon Vickers, acclaimed Canadian operatic tenor, dies at 88 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Christianity is, in ideal terms, a religion of redemption. Christian author Joshua Harris is sorry for the damage he did. Now what? 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The first installment examines the rise and impact of Christianity and Islam across the continent. TV highlights: ‘When We Rise’ premieres on ABC 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z They are fed up with the negativity of contemporary Christianity toward sex and the subservient role of women in the church. Music Review: Mark Adamo’s Opera Makes a Wife of Mary Magdalene 2013-06-20T22:14:00Z What The Young Messiah aims to do may have antecedents in the roots of early Christianity — for example, the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which created its own narrative of Jesus’ life as a boy. Here's Why Making The Young Messiah Was 'Fraught With Peril' 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z “The accidental genius of Western Christianity was in ‘figuring out’ how to dismantle kin-based institutions while at the same time catalyzing its own spread.” Why Are We in the West So Weird? A Theory 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z If a former believer says that Christianity made her depressed, obsessive, or post-traumatic, she is likely to be dismissed as an exaggerator. The sad, twisted truth about conservative Christianity’s effect on the mind 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z Hillary viewed Christianity as a mandate to respond to social needs, according to Rosalie Bentzinger, who was then the church’s director of Christian education. Always running, always prepared: Hillary Clinton as a high school politician 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Christianity is still the primary religion of white nationalists, but Viking mythology is playing an increasingly prominent role in supremacy movements, much to the distress of nonracist modern worshipers of those deities. How do we learn to stop worrying and keep loving “Vikings”? 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Given the lack of concordance of this group with the basic tenets of Christianity, we believe that the “t” around their necks stood for “Trump.” Style Invitational Week 1454: Punku 3 — haiku with a pun, duh 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z His parents, who met at a commune in New Mexico, fought a lot after his mother converted to evangelical Christianity, and eventually divorced. With ‘There There,’ Tommy Orange Has Written a New Kind of American Epic 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z His founding of South Korea’s biggest church was a symbol of the postwar growth of Christianity in the country before that achievement was tainted by corruption and other scandals. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z But there also was a religious impulse — toward a more personal, mystical, intensely felt Christianity, which often took visual form. Review | Getty exhibition shows how the naked body became a subject for art 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z “The word, and the bread and wine, which are the basis of Christianity,” the Cardinal said in March. The Most Surprising Entry in Venice’s Architecture Biennale? The Vatican’s 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The country is central to a wave that puts West Africa at the heart of global Christianity, said professor Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu of Trinity Theological Seminary in Accra. Faith puts Ghana at heart of global Christianity 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Ireland clearly has grievances that animated and motivated its bards and poets, from the encroachment of Christianity to the Norse and British invasions. Author, author: Nick Laird 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z What about Christianity, the third, and the largest, piece of the matrix? Illuminating Islam’s Peaceful Origins 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Its establishment of an administrative structure and the work of its missionaries to convert millions of indigenous people to Christianity were equally successful. Border line 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z “We lost a lot of years. Being in a relationship with God through Christianity had carried me for a period of time,” he remembers. Mahershala Ali: ‘I had to protect myself from people’s fear of me’ 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z At the start it was more a question of property and ownership, and it’s only perhaps with the advent of Christianity that it becomes about moral factors. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z Where Tebow’s religiosity has been endlessly analyzed by the media and championed by the white religious right, the centrality of Collins’ Christianity and faith community in his decision to come out has been ignored. Religious right shuns black gay athlete 2013-05-09T20:05:00Z Constantinople was the headquarters of Orthodox Christianity, and today's Ecumenical Patriarchate operates under restrictions. Turkey: epic movie highlights Ottoman conquest 2012-03-02T10:46:04Z CS Lewis: the author of the Narnia Chronicles had no single Damascene moment in embracing Christianity. CS Lewis: A Life – review 2013-04-14T07:00:01Z She prays in her combination of native religion and Christianity. Urrea's 'Queen of America': Teresita returns 2011-12-02T18:38:04Z Perhaps in the West it was due to the dominance of Christianity, and particularly Catholicism, over intellectual inquiry. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Author Rebecca Stott on 'Darwin's Ghosts' 2012-08-08T16:44:34Z Much of the village’s hardship dates back to the disruptive visit of a British missionary who was determined to teach the superiority of Christianity to Nigerian pagans. Books of The Times: ‘Foreign Gods, Inc.,’ by Okey Ndibe 2013-12-29T22:31:18Z "One of the great mysteries of early Christianity is Paul's ability to virtually look the original follows of Jesus in the eye and say 'wrong.' And not only that but to win the argument." Tom Bissell's 'Apostle' takes a ride-along through unanswerable questions about Jesus' disciples 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Pentecostal Christianity is such a potent force on the African continent and I’m very interested in understanding its dynamics. What the Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads While She Works 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Shaw, 54, is alone onstage - except for the early presence of a real-life vulture - as she tells her version of "The Greatest Story Ever Told," one that often sharply veers from traditional Christianity. Fiona Shaw plays the Virgin Mary with 'no agenda' 2013-04-12T13:00:14Z With the help of scholars , I selected 12 images from around the world that are “true” in the way they translate local idioms and sensibilities into the universal ethos Christianity strives to represent. Searching for a Jesus Who Looks More Like Me 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z The Century shot back, running editorials denouncing Mr. Graham as a Madison Avenue-style huckster leading a “monstrous juggernaut” that threatened to “set back Protestant Christianity a half-century.” A Religious Legacy, With Its Leftward Tilt, Is Reconsidered 2013-07-23T20:45:51Z A champion of humanistic Christianity, Sayers had Christ speaking in modern rather than biblical parlance, thereby triggering a fierce public debate. Taproot woos fans of Dorothy L. Sayers in upcoming 'Gaudy Night' 2012-09-12T23:05:04Z His parents became involved with the charismatic movement – "the religious version of flower power", a spiritual branch of Christianity involving speaking in tongues and the laying-on of hands. A life in writing: Tim Parks 2012-07-27T21:55:02Z It’s a syncretic culture with voodoo and Christianity clinging to each other, which is really interesting. Q&A: Author Amy Wilentz and the Lure of Haiti 2013-01-28T15:00:18Z The other three are more sketchily characterised, but Barter is endearing as the teenage Claire, torn between evangelical Christianity and her ambition to be a gothic-grunge guitarist. Huzzies – review 2012-10-29T17:41:28Z This particular form of evangelical Christianity is a far cry from the religion of Jesus, who proclaimed good news to the poor, release to the captives, and liberation of the oppressed. White evangelical Christians need Jesus — not Donald Trump — if their movement is going to survive 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Christianity helped find a way through the toleration maze in the 16th and 17th centuries by drawing on and working through biblically grounded ideas of what was and wasn't indifferent to temporal affairs. The political Bible, part 4: toleration 2011-08-29T08:59:00Z "There's a new generation that doesn't want to apologize for being African and also wants to embrace Christianity," he said. Faith puts Ghana at heart of global Christianity 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The missionary spoke of this courageous brother, who burned to death, as a lost soul for not having converted to Christianity before his tragic end. In the laudable 'The Christians,' characterizations are a saving grace 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z While both tell a great story it's Christianity that's been used to murder and segregate millions of people. 2010-01-22T17:28:00Z To be clear, I’m not saying that Christianity’s sex rules are only a function of patriarchal Christian privilege. The religious right’s policing of sex robs pleasure from the underprivileged 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z This is where Ireland’s ancient kings claimed their throne and where St. Patrick preached his deal-clinching sermon converting the pagans to Christianity. Beyond Dublin, a dazzling day trip 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z I was quite keen on Jesus and toyed with Christianity in my teens. Emma Thompson: ‘Dieting screwed up my metabolism. I regret ever going on one' 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z In Christianity, all demons are agents of the devil and preachers of everything evil and malevolent. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z It focuses on “the three Abrahamic religions” — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — each of which takes as a forebear an “itinerant herdsman” of the Middle East, Abraham, who affirmed belief in a single God. Exhibition Review: Abraham?s Progeny, and Their Texts 2010-10-22T22:50:00Z In Nigeria, it is the biggest force in the country, with Islam and Christianity. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: my new novel is about love, race... and hair 2013-04-06T23:05:05Z The formula was developed to accommodate those branches of Christianity that believe swearing to be an offence, but it is now available to atheists and to agnostics. A Brief History of Oaths and Books 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z “This region has been the center of the world for every great empire recorded in human history,” said Candida Moss, a professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame. In Syria and Iraq, Trying to Protect a Heritage at Risk 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z If Nicov calls for a new religion, “Michael” promotes an old one, charismatic Christianity. Review: Chekhov and Tolstoy Reunited in ‘Love Stories’ 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Fast-forward a few millenniums and we find that Christianity was such a hit because it used communal wine in its rites. Sloshed, Hammered, Blotto — We’ve Been Doing It for Ages 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z For cultural and historical reasons, the religions against which it has opposed itself are Christianity and Judaism, both of which must be called anthropologies, whatever else. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Forms of it were adopted by Judaic, Byzantine and Muslim religious ceremony, and later by Latin Christianity. What sparked our fear of witches — and what kept it burning so long? 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z It becomes clear that what is most important for her about Christianity is not its doctrines, narratives, sacraments or even individual faith. Are you SBNR (spiritual but not religious)? 2013-03-02T13:00:00Z There are social justice Christians, moral crusader Christians, Christians who believe in “Jesus-as-good-man-but-no-more,” and those who hold to a “Jesus-is-the-only-way” Christianity. My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” 2013-03-24T11:00:00Z I never before understood theists who pick and choose from a religion like Christianity. A skeptic goes to yoga 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z “They may go to church because that’s the church their family attends, but they don’t necessarily subscribe to the beliefs of Christianity.” African-American Atheists 2011-11-25T23:54:27Z Dylan did open his China shows with his overtly Christian 1979 song "Gonna Change My Way of Thinking," from the period soon after Dylan, who was born Jewish, embraced Christianity for a number of years. Bob Dylan denies censorship of China shows 2011-05-13T23:13:10Z What then are the men of white, straight heteronormativity Christianity supposed to do with Hot Jesus? Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z It helps that Mormonism is decidedly less squicky about rich people than traditional Christianity. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z “Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it’s important that we all realize that,” he said. Collective consciousness to replace God: author Dan Brown 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z An Irish donor relinquished a religious figurine that signified a renunciation of Christianity. She broke your heart. He left you. An L.A. museum wants to know all about it. 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z She led us down into a network of low-ceilinged stone chambers and passageways decorated with fragmentary murals from the dawn of Christianity. Explorer: The Island of Sant?Antioco, off Sardinia, Italy 2010-03-26T07:58:00Z It’s one of Christianity’s holiest sites, but for years the shrine in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher was partially held up by an unsightly iron cage. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Good Time’ and ‘Secrets of Christ’s Tomb’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z But "The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ" is a far more direct exploration of the foundations of Christianity and the church as well as an examination of the fascination and power of storytelling. Pullman risks Christian anger with Jesus novel 2010-03-28T18:42:00Z It's more Karl Marx than Adam Smith, and yet our idea of capitalism is so tied up with our idea of Christianity. Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Christian rock transparently attempts to make Christianity cool – if anything it rebels against rock's orthodoxies of intoxication and foul language. How Islamic punk went from fiction to reality 2011-08-04T19:00:01Z The new novel features the legend of a vampire named Remshi, whose promised return has a surface parallel to Christianity. ArtsBeat: Werewolves, Vampires and Shrinks, Oh My: Glen Duncan Talks About 'Talulla Rising' 2012-06-27T14:52:44Z Frankenmuth was founded by 15 Lutherans, led by August Craemer, who immigrated with the stated purpose of converting Native Americans to Christianity. Thanksgiving in a Town Built on Lederhosen and Limitless Meals 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z For American writers even now, Christianity continues to provide a vast web of references, imagery and metaphor. Imprinted by Belief 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z She wonders what this says about the place of Christianity in Britain today and asks whether any subject should be beyond critique. TV highlights 27/03/2013 2013-03-27T07:00:11Z However, after Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity, Nicholas was elected bishop of Myra. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z While he openly embraces the mantle of evangelical Christianity, Dr. Chapman points out that the book contains few overt references to Scripture. This Life: Can Gary Chapman Save Your Marriage?--This Life 2011-11-19T14:00:08Z Every year devotees of the society, which combines a form of Christianity with Indian mysticism celebrate, their divine new year, which lasts three days from August 19. Pilgrims dance in cosmic energy ritual in Bulgaria 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Strobel’s character “is a skeptic who says he’s being evenhanded and unbiased but he’s looking to debunk Christianity so he’s not as unbiased as he should be.” Forget Netflix and Chill. Try Pure Flix and Pray. 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Cinema, like Christianity, isn’t grounded in historical truth. The Best DVD of the Year: Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du Cinema 2012-01-06T15:00:09Z The Golden Dawn took the ritual finery of Freemasonry and synthesized it with a kind of mystical Christianity, Jewish Kabbalah, and the writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, an invented figure from late antiquity. Making the Tarot Literary Again 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Or is Christianity rightly viewed as a faith that deters the free thinking that great literature demands? Where did all the Christian writers go? 2010-03-31T10:11:00Z Christianity declared that humans “have access to the deepest reality as individuals rather than merely as members of a group”. The search goes on 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z You argue that culture war is not the best use of Christianity, but is it the strongest glue left to it? ArtsBeat: Ross Douthat Talks About the State of American Christianity 2012-04-26T14:36:32Z “It reminds me of when I transitioned from Christianity to atheism,” she said. Love, Death, and Begging for Celebrities to Kill You 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z After pledging that “We’re going to protect Christianity,” he brought up “Two Corinthians, right, two Corinthians,” calling them “the whole ball game.” Donald Trump’s phony faith-mongering, Ted Cruz doomed crusader: Sex, lies, religion and the GOP’s 2016 carnival 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Again Vermes is inclined to see "Platonic" themes as one of the elements that work the alchemical change in Christianity that will make it unrecognisable to its founder. Christian Beginnings by Geza Vermes - review 2012-07-11T07:00:02Z If mental torture is required to effect a conversion, what does that say about the reliability of the fundamental premises of Christianity to begin with? The Fantasy of the Deathbed Conversion 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z The artist “restricts his palette to somber colors,” said Victoria Emily Jones, who blogs about Christianity and the arts at ArtandTheology.org. Searching for a Jesus Who Looks More Like Me 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z The danger here is obvious: If American Christianity is just one expression of the identity politics of conservative America, then it isn’t really much of a Christianity at all. ArtsBeat: Ross Douthat Talks About the State of American Christianity 2012-04-26T14:36:32Z After two episodes of GCB, however, it’s hard to take the show seriously as an attack on Christianity. TV Weekend: GCB 2012-03-02T19:43:00Z But what these people probably don’t realize is that, as steeped in Christianity as Mr. Rutter’s music may be, his personal beliefs are, in his own word, “nebulous.” The Composer Who Owns Christmas 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z The author's forebears, the Gutmanns, were a prominent line of bankers in Germany and Holland who converted to Christianity from Judaism in the late 1800s. Nazis killed Simon Goodman's grandparents and stole their art; new book tells how he got some of it back 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z In their book "The Faith of Donald J. Trump," Trump's evangelical biographers David Brody and Scott Lamb concurred: Trump would "protect Christianity"; he would be their "ultimate fighting champion." From Donald Trump to John Wayne: How to become a hero of the Christian Right 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Then American Baptist missionaries invaded, eventually succeeding in almost totally suppressing the Naga’s “satanic” practices and converting nearly all of the population to nominal Christianity. Art Review: Naga Peoples Made Beauty From the Ugly in Northeastern India 2013-06-27T21:18:57Z A Sudanese court on Monday ordered the release of a 27-year-old woman who was sentenced to death last month for converting from Islam to Christianity, the state news agency said. Sudanese court orders release of woman sentenced to death for changing faith 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Most of the more than 140 objects on display speak to the role of Christianity in the cultural definition of the Armenian people. Review | In New York, a look into the early days of the world’s oldest Christian nation 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z All were charismatic prophets who dissented from traditional Christianity — and claimed, in one way or another, to represent God himself. A Tour Through the ‘American Messiahs’ of Our Past 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z They fled England, seeking freedom to practice their particular form of Christianity. Why America is so weird about sex 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Like his great Korean contemporary Park Chan-wook, he knew how to stage violence, and like Lee Chang-dong he was interested in Christianity and the life of the spirit. Kim Ki-duk: punk-Buddhist shock, violence – and hypnotic beauty too 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z A key difference I see is that Islam is bound up with a civilization and a culture in way that Christianity isn’t, or isn’t any longer. Sam Harris talks Islam, ISIS, atheism, GOP madness: “We are confronting people, in dozens of countries, who despise more or less everything that we value” 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The satirical novel depicts a trade in human body parts — by a company named Human Resources — and a pastor of a megachurch who preaches Chrislam — a mix of Christianity and Islam. Nigerian Nobel-winning author Wole Soyinka has hope in young 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z These ideas are conservative, fundamentalist, evangelical Christianity and the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Letters to the Editor 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Werline: I don’t think the Founding Fathers had a form of Christianity that we would immediately recognize today because of the presence of deism. Faith in ignorance: Politicians who quote the Bible often don’t know anything about the Bible 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Whether you like #ThePassionLive or not, it's opening up a dialogue about Christianity and why it's okay to be a proud Christian. See How Twitter Users Passionately Reacted To 'The Passion' 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z The song "Tourniquet" helped me shed the ghosts of my evangelical past as it questions the forgiveness purported within Christianity. Bring me to life: Evanescence helped me find my trans voice 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z Reviewing that production, The Los Angeles Times called it a “funny and thought-provoking new play” that illuminates “the clashing personalities that drive three discordant takes on Christianity.” He Puts Bill Maher on TV, and Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy on Stage 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z He blogs for the Telegraph and the occasional obligatory leftie-baiting that such a job entails has the occasional added twist of a problematic relationship with established Christianity. Ninety Days by Bill Clegg; Memoirs of an Addicted Brain by Marc Lewis; The Fix by Damian Thompson – review 2012-07-07T23:05:03Z She concluded that while she is rooted in Christianity, there are many paths to God. Can Spiritual Directors Help? 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z But Christianity introduced a new theological element to the scene — a divine Christ and triune Godhead — which proved unacceptable to both Judaism and Islam. Illuminating Islam’s Peaceful Origins 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z The second series, whose title refers to Christianity’s Stations of the Cross, memorializes Black victims of racist violence. Review | In the galleries: Photos capture a fleeting moment, leave an indelible impression 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Pryce’s confusion and abasement are painful to watch, as Antonio seems to relish his control over his persecutor’s fate, allowing him to live only if he converts to Christianity. Review: ‘The Merchant of Venice’ With Extra Fog, Moral and Atmospheric 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z It is true that many religious traditions, including Judaism and Christianity, have seen natural disasters as divine punishment. Are natural disasters part of God’s retribution? 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z By popularizing reggae internationally, Marley became the global ambassador for Rastafarians, a Jamaican spiritual movement formed from the union of black nationalism and messianic Christianity. | 'The First Rasta': ?The First Rasta,? Directed by H?l?ne Lee ? Review 2011-11-29T23:50:52Z First, correct me if I’m wrong, but Christianity has no similar law against visually depicting Jesus Christ, as a visit to a church or museum will prove. “Djesus Uncrossed,” Grievance, and How Satire Actually Works 2013-02-19T22:42:23Z In some ways the country is a half-generation behind the declining rate of Christianity in other western countries like the U.K., Atheists have their number: How the Christian right is hastening religion’s decline 2014-03-25T11:50:00Z A deeply holy time long before Christianity, when the rich neolithic settlers of Orkney left their stone houses to witness the midwinter sun strike the chamber deep in the mound of Maeshowe. Winter solstice art: the dark night rises 2012-12-21T14:18:28Z D. Keith Mano, whose teeming, rollicking novels explored the problems and passions of Christianity in the modern world, to remarkable effect in the capacious, Rabelaisian black comedy “Take Five,” died on Wednesday in Manhattan. D. Keith Mano, Novelist Who Tackled Christianity, Sex and More, Dies at 74 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z For these writers, and many others, "religion" always seems to mean either fundamentalist Islam or American evangelical Christianity. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z “Colored” followed “A.D.,” a new work for five dancers that Mr. Marshall calls “the beginning of a conversation surrounding Christianity and its influence on the body.” Review: Dancing the ‘Twisted Beauty’ of the Black Experience 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Through what began as monthly virtual conversations in summer 2019, he explored what form of Christianity would be meaningful to him now. Can Spiritual Directors Help? 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z In the first half he shows Julian going to Athens in search of enlightenment and meeting the mystic Maximus, who urges him to combine the wisdom of Christianity with that of paganism. The best theatre for spring 2011 2011-04-05T19:00:02Z Likewise, when we learn that another character subscribes to Christianity Today, we’re clearly supposed to take that as a clue of goodness and decency. A newly discovered corpse raises new questions about a 20-year-old mystery 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z It was from this “pure” soil and purified Christianity that these individuals believed a model society would, and must, be born. Actually, the right invented the “War on Christmas”: The real history behind today’s phoniest persecution 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z And many other places besides churches on Sunday morning as well: open any issue of Christianity Today—the flagship magazine of evangelical Christianity—and you will see almost exclusively white faces, most of them male. The Bible’s racist monstrosities: How the “word of God” has been — and still is — used to oppress 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Christianity continued in this vein, with such bestselling guides as Thomas a Kempis's The Imitation of Christ. In defence of self-help books 2012-05-17T09:30:01Z The emphasis was almost always on respecting Britain’s residual state religion, Christianity. Crooked preachers and sexy priests: has TV got a problem with Christianity? 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z This potentially unsettling blend of capitalism and Christianity is on full display in “The Righteous Gemstones,” as well. What the megachurch tells us about evangelicals in HBO's "The Righteous Gemstones" 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z They may lurch into the ludicrous, but with surprising earnestness these films nonetheless play out a three-way philosophical debate: between enlightened rationalism, orthodox Christianity and renewed paganism. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Tomorrow, it could be books about Christianity, the country’s founders or war heroes. Florida School District Is Sued Over Book Restrictions 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z This branch of Christianity emphasizes spiritual experience in everyday life. Exorcisms have been part of Christianity for centuries 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Another island getaway is Iona, famous as the birthplace of Christianity in Scotland. Scotland’s ultimate island getaways 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z He goes on to summarize the first 600 years of Christianity in 17 pages, bringing religious history to its culmination in Islam, “a kind of doubling down on the very concept of monotheism.” Reza Aslan’s ‘God: A Human History’ 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z There's a phrase you use in the book, a more expansive view of Christianity. "As a Woman" author Paula Stone Williams: I was "unaware of my male privilege" until transition 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Pagels says decisions about which gospels were accepted in the New Testament had much to do with the survival of Christianity. 'Gnostic Gospels' author Pagels to speak in Seattle 2010-04-29T00:13:00Z Many of the letters are to Trajan himself, and the most arresting ones deal with the problem of what to do about Christianity. They Were the Renaissance Men of Roman Antiquity 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z “It’s a place where people who have had bad experiences with Christianity” can come together, she said. Is Weed Church Church? 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z An elder in my white church said to me one night, “Son, you’ve got to understand: Christianity has nothing to do with racism; that’s political, and our faith is personal.” Racism is “America’s original sin”: Unless we tell the truth about our history, we’ll never find the way to reconciliation 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z This attitude of embracing the inevitable is built into not only Christianity but also other religions, especially Buddhism. Was Mother Teresa a masochist? 2013-04-30T16:04:00Z The strongest recurring theme of “Stealing” is that rigid Christianity tears apart Kit’s entire family. A Religious Boarding School That’s Actually Hell 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Indeed, as a godless, mixed-race male, I'm probably not the prime demographic for an outfit so heavily rooted in feminism, Christianity and the civil rights struggle. Sweet Honey in the Rock – review 2013-03-25T18:33:35Z The problem is that Rand proclaimed at every opportunity that she was a militant atheist who felt nothing but contempt for Christianity as a religion of weaklings possessing a slave mentality. GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party 2012-08-05T16:00:00Z “One of the interesting things about early Christianity is the way it justifies suffering, almost encourages it,” Mr. Shinn said. Bush Theater Celebrates King James Bible With ?Sixty-Six Books? 2011-10-23T22:44:26Z Traditions such as Christianity, Islam and Buddhism certainly exist and have similarities, but the idea that these are all examples of religion is relatively new. Why are people calling Bitcoin a religion? 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Nor is Mr. Aslan’s thesis controversial, at least among scholars of early Christianity. Books of The Times: Reza Aslan’s ‘Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth’ 2013-08-05T19:15:02Z Steubenville was Christianity ratcheted up, with the sort of weeping adoration one usually sees at concerts of preteen idols. My Steubenville 2013-03-28T00:00:00Z His white mother, a wandering hippie and spiritual seeker, later converted to evangelical Christianity and denounced his father’s religious practices as demonic. With ‘There There,’ Tommy Orange Has Written a New Kind of American Epic 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z For young Pico, there were no walls separating the sages of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and pagan antiquity; they existed side by side. A Renaissance Murder Mystery 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z To be a white Midwestern evangelical now is to be enveloped by Trumpism, which Lenz describes as "a civil religion deeply connected with Christianity but also influenced by capitalism, regionalism and politics." Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z But Christianity scholar Yisca Harani explains it may be plausible in at least a literary way, if there was a translation inaccuracy of the word “gold”. Smells like heaven: Israeli farm recreates Magi's gifts to Jesus 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Certainly German philosophy was distorted by madmen just as Christianity has been in the past, but atheists fool themselves if they try to differentiate the two. What Hitchens got wrong: Abolishing religion won’t fix anything 2013-12-07T12:30:00Z After Christianity won official status in the Roman empire in the fourth century, it jumped languages again: St Jerome’s Latin Bible was official for Western Christianity. Talking in tongues 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z “She identifies herself as a Methodist, and I think it’s admirable that she does not blow a trumpet about her Christianity,” Mr. Overstreet said. Hillary Clinton’s Lonesome White Male Supporters 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z I started thinking about heaven, which Christianity deems to be the ultimate reward. In the wake of Heavenly's Space Manatee 2010-05-27T21:30:00Z Asked if she respects Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, she answered yes, yes, and no, respectively. WATCH: “The Daily Show” asked Trump supporters about this “extreme vetting” and their answers are as insane as you’d imagine 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z A form of corporate Christianity, it sees old shopping malls turned into giant places of worship, with owners whose business goals demand a congregation that grows year-on-year – or they fire the pastor. Danny McBride: 'Kanye asked me to play him in a movie of his life' 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Lewis and would often put myself to sleep reading ”The Screwtape Letters” or “Mere Christianity” with one eye closed to correct for double vision. My sober conversion to atheism 2013-03-03T19:00:00Z In Catholicism or Christianity, demons are always bad and they're always evil. Aasif Mandvi talks "Evil," djinns and "the appeal of Trump" despite being hated by GOP leaders 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z And the mix of Indigenous religions with Islam and evangelical Christianity was a volatile one, equally destructive and fruitful, and it surely inspired the combined images of militancy and spirituality in Bamigboye’s art. Bamigboye, Nigeria’s Tour-de-Force Sculptor, Claims His Fame in the World 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Abraham’s Well Visitor’s Center, a gleaming complex that emphasizes Beersheba’s history as the biblical home of Abraham, a major figure in Judaism, Islam and Christianity, opened this month. In Israel, a History of Abraham 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The excerpt relays a scene called “The Conversion,” in which the Muslim Oronte converts to Christianity to win the Christian Giselda. Music Review: Tanglewood?s Season Opens With Good Friends Like Verdi and Bellini 2011-07-10T21:36:09Z This conforms to the Victorian ideal of "muscular Christianity", the idea that a healthy, muscular masculine body would lead to a healthy mind, and "manliness" enacted over social class and gender. Sherlock Holmes and the case of toxic masculinity: what is behind the detective’s appeal? 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z Dig below the event's thin veneer of Christianity and you'll find a pagan springtime ritual. Raccoons, rabbits and Sean Spicer: The camp and contradictions of the White House Easter Egg Roll 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z The history of Catholicism has been one of continuing interpretation and evolution-- starting with the New Testament, Christianity's progression through Rome, Constantinian statements on doctrine and later responses to Protestantism. A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Smith is a spiritual adviser to Mr. Bieber, who credits Christianity with turning around his personal life. This Preacher Would Be Happy to Share Your Bowl of Açaí 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Uncovered in the 1940s, these blockbuster documents kaleidoscopically broadened our sense of what Christianity was and is. New & Noteworthy 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Of course, English isn't the only language to produce great religious poetry, and Christianity isn't the only religion to inspire it. Poster poems: religion 2013-04-12T15:23:10Z There’s longer traditions of Christianity in Ethiopia than there is anywhere else. Bringing Africa to the World 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z There’s just as much of a spectrum as there is with Judaism and Christianity. Faith and Identity Clash in ‘The Profane’: An Actors’ Round Table 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Christianity has become an identity just like any other worldview or system. Christians should abandon Christianity 2013-04-21T16:00:00Z Yet contemporary American politics is infused with religion — in particular, with Christianity. Faith in ignorance: Politicians who quote the Bible often don’t know anything about the Bible 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Sorrentino disagrees with the notion that the chief tension in Christianity today is between the US and Europe. Puffing pontiff: The Young Pope's Oscar-winning director on Jude Law, sex and cigarettes 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z He denounced Christianity at an early age, but his work is rife with apocalyptic visions and paradises lost. Familiar Tales Remixed, at the Hands of a Postmodern Master 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Fun fact: Wreaths predate Christianity; their roots trace back to ancient Rome. Why Doesn’t Anyone Put as Much Effort Into Secret Santa as I Do? 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z This is a man for whom capitalism and Christianity have been conflated into a single ideology of achievement. Theater Review: ‘Grace,’ With Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon, at Cort Theater 2012-10-05T02:00:00Z I was born and raised in New York City, but my roots are more exotic: between my Cuban Catholic mother and my Greek Orthodox father, family religion involved the lushest, most high-drama strains of Christianity. Witches of America: how I became immersed in a growing movement 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z The greatest humiliation of American Christianity is its long endorsement of slavery, and even longer endorsement of racism—a dark cloud still clearly visible at eleven o’clock on Sunday mornings. The Bible’s racist monstrosities: How the “word of God” has been — and still is — used to oppress 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z My father knows I choose to fill my time with people for whom Christianity is an outmoded concept, a vestigial tail that humanity would be better off losing. Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z Here was a group of dedicated Christian young people determined to return to the pure roots of Christianity by living communally and sharing all things. My life in the cult: How “serving God” unraveled into sex abuse, child neglect and a waking nightmare 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Movies such as Rosemary’s Baby, the Exorcist, the Omen, the Wicker Man and the Devils portrayed black magic, paganism and the like in direct opposition to the benign tenants of Christianity. Black magic surgeon: Doctor Strange brings the occult back to the big screen 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Even when the texts themselves were relatively unchanging, their script and illumination testified to a dynamic, shifting relationship to the dominant cultures and religions of Christianity and Islam. Exhibition Review: ‘Crossing Borders’ Opens at the Jewish Museum 2012-09-15T00:26:51Z Indeed, if Christianity is true to its founding ideals, that is precisely what we should expect. Christianity: a faith for the simple 2011-01-31T13:00:01Z Somehow, we tend to forget this, but Christianity was born as a Jewish sect, during a time of terrible violence. James Carroll on disarming the memory of Jesus: “America threatens the world with violence in ways that no other country does” 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z Instead of pursuing “truth,” leaders must attack bad ideas like secularism and New Deal economics, replacing them with Christianity and individualism. This is how the GOP imploded: The real story behind the conservative crack-up, and the creation of Donald Trump 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Shakespeare allows Shylock to express the progressive sentiment that Jews are people before confiscating his property and forcing him to convert to Christianity, therefore Merchant is actually a humanist text? Shakespeare, universal? No, it's cultural imperialism 2012-05-21T13:00:03Z He grew up in Queens, New York, and when he was 5 years old, his parents left Catholicism for a very different form of Christianity. Why doesn’t everyone believe in God?: The skeptical brain may hold the answer 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z My spiritual practice as I have always understood it teaches that Christianity means tolerance, forgiveness, unselfishness and simplicity. I don’t know how to be Catholic any more 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z It seems Christianity was the start of your appreciation for other branches of storytelling. Melissa de La Cruz loves fairy tales so much she'll turn them inside out 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Good Friday is there, a terrible murder at the heart of Christianity. Rethinking Easter through Paul the Apostle: Why evangelicals get it wrong 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z Six hundred Pequots were destroyed after laying down their weapons and accepting Christianity. Thanksgiving, a day of mourning for Native Americans 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Ever since, the Kelabits, who now number about 6,000, have gladly practiced evangelical Christianity with ceremonies far less laborious than their old animist rituals, they say. Personal Journeys : Back to Borneo, and an Eden at Risk 2014-02-21T19:03:43Z Millions of faithful each year visit the Fatima shrine, one of the most famous in Christianity. Pope to make 'Fatima visionaries' saints during visit in May 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Because as far back as I can remember, Christianity has been a glittering swimming pool through a chain-link fence. Jews dig Christmas too 2012-12-25T21:00:00Z Film clips and costumes focused the action on the conflict between Christianity and Islam. Christoph Schlingensief obituary 2010-08-24T17:44:00Z Unlike Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and most other religions, Judaism is both a religion and a "peoplehood." How to Be a Jew in the Age of Trump? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z They include one representative describing Christianity as “widely interpreted” to be a “slave-making” religion. Movie Review: ‘Trials of Muhammad Ali’ Traces Ali’s Battle Over Vietnam 2013-08-22T21:27:48Z Follett also makes a point of showing how clever aristocrats used Christianity to gain an edge in business disputes. International Thrillers Favor Trysts over Treason 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Calling people to account for harboring this kind of pride is one of the ways that Christianity pays attention to this imbalance, which in a way is a good thing. How LGBTQ love saves Christianity: A priest explains 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z That was in keeping with “the primitive Christianity of the time,” she added. Michael Fassbender and the Robes of Royalty 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z I’ve spent years reading books about Christianity including about the Gnostic Gospels. Jane Fonda Likes to Curl Up With a Good Book, Among the Dead 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Christianity Today carries an interview with Robert Park who says one of the best ways for Christians to help North Koreans is to redirect money to refugees and North Koreans assisting refugees. Divine dispatches: a religion roundup 2010-09-01T12:23:00Z Why did Obal abandon Christianity, while his friends and family remained faithful? Why doesn’t everyone believe in God?: The skeptical brain may hold the answer 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z In “Don Verdean,” however, the protagonist’s heroism brings out the tragic element of Christianity. Jared Hess’s Bitter Religious Satire, “Don Verdean” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Given a list of familiar virtues, tolerance is unlikely to be the one most readily associated with Christianity. The political Bible, part 4: toleration 2011-08-29T08:59:00Z Aspiring only to the purity of early Christianity, they were appalled by the worldliness of the medieval papacy and its debauched clerics. Languedoc, France: Brutal History and Beautiful Setting 2010-05-07T18:37:00Z We learn the horse is a carrier not merely of Ron Turcotte's 130 pounds, but of nazism, racism, Tea Party ideology and the dark side of Christianity. 'Nazi' row engulfs Disney film about champion racehorse Secretariat 2010-10-11T11:49:00Z Hitchens saw Christianity as little more than a social virus with interesting literary overtones. The Fantasy of the Deathbed Conversion 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z It focuses on the fight for souls being waged by Chilford, who is an ardent believer in the civilizing force of Christianity and a foe of all traditional native customs. Theater Review : Pascale Armand in ?The Convert,? by Danai Gurira 2012-02-06T23:02:27Z The Evangelical church believes there is currently a war on Christianity. Protect the sacred lives of women: To be pro-life, you must change your life 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Of the 32,000 denominations into which Christianity has fractured, his is one of the more conservative. Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z Boyce stresses that the principal tenet of Christianity in the West isn’t, as many believe, the Judeo-Christian moral code. ‘Born Bad’: How the idea that we’re all sinners has shaped Western culture 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z “A Pilgrimage to Eternity” is also a stunningly comprehensive history of both Christianity and Western Europe. Timothy Egan Makes Room for the Holy Spirit 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Abraham’s Progeny, and Their Texts The sweep of the new exhibition at the — “Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam” — is stunning. Exhibition Review: Abraham?s Progeny, and Their Texts 2010-10-22T22:50:00Z Terry has an embrace for Christianity, for all religions, but not in the textbook definition of Christianity. Brad Pitt on the Mystery of Terry Malick 2011-05-26T19:50:00Z When foreign missionaries arrived, they persuaded the Igbos to embrace Christianity—openly, at least. My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z And then in 8th grade, I got into my monk-era of Christianity. Lucy Dacus Prefers Weepy Stories, Poet Dogs and Food With Attitude 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z “You say we should not discriminate against Christianity. You are the worst representation of what it means to be a Christian,” Gaga said in her mid-song interlude aimed at Pence. Lady Gaga to Mike Pence: "You are the worst representation of what it means to be a Christian" 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z This language shifted the blame for the death of Jesus in medieval Christianity from Roman authorities to the Jewish people as a whole. Why Good Friday was dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages and how that changed 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z The couple shared common faiths in Christianity and each other. ‘American Underdog’ Review: A Football Fairy Tale 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z She plans to create another department for Byzantium and eastern Christianity, which she says is “lost” in the Louvre, and open another entrance to relieve the congestion at I.M. Louvre Gets Its First Female Leader in 228 Years 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z How did the advent of Christianity change the perspective of travel writers? ArtsBeat: Peter Whitfield Talks About the History of Travel Literature 2012-03-14T14:30:34Z The background is that St Paul is very close to the actor's heart because he was converted to Christianity when reading a Bible in a hotel room in 1986. David Suchet records entire Bible between Poirot performances 2013-07-09T09:51:59Z The end of the show undermines this, as Herring goes soppy about Christianity, arguing that love and democracy are equally faith-based and unverifiable. Richard Herring ? review 2010-12-21T22:45:00Z It was only in 987 that her grandson Vladimir, keen to obtain the hand of the Byzantine emperor’s sister, Princess Anne, agreed in exchange to adhere to Christianity. Review: The Foundations of Russian Culture and Art 2010-03-05T14:00:00Z "I would never do anything that would make fun of my God, my Christianity," she said. Kristin Chenoweth: 'GCB' is 'not trying to be Shakespeare' 2012-05-04T03:15:05Z But Fox & Friends has long been insisting there’s a War on Christianity. Fox News is wrong about Charleston: Religion isn’t a victim of the massacre, it’s a weapon 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z “There isn’t a great deal of historical Christianity or explicit theological content in their worship,” said R. Albert Mohler Jr., the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Tattoos, Bieber, Black Lives Matter and Jesus 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z A mvwala staff from this era, an object that traditionally symbolizes power and a connection with ancestors, invokes Christianity as a source of authority with a figure of St. Anthony on its finial. An Unsettling Visit to “Kongo” 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Far from art leading me to Christianity, the Christianity I once believed in has given depth to my love of the arts. Belief is unnecessary, but knowledge helps 2010-08-25T10:30:00Z Raised Muslim, as a teenager he converted to Christianity, which he discovered through his own studying. Why Write About Pop Music? ‘I Like When People Disagree About Stuff.’ 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Or is Christianity just one among several ways to reach toward the divine? The Modern Monkhood of Thomas Merton 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Are your views on religion, Christianity in particular, always put across in your novels?Not always. Philip Pullman: a life in writing 2011-03-03T12:00:00Z Nevertheless, shortly after teaching basic Christianity to Friday, Crusoe — despite some initial reservations — organizes the massacre of 17 “savages.” Review | Three hundred years later, does ‘Robinson Crusoe’ hold up as a classic? 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Where this leaves Jews, Muslims, atheists and others who do not identify patriotism with Christianity is out of the realm of discussion. How Bruce Springsteen – and the left – can reclaim and cultivate a vocabulary of patriotism 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z "The weirdness of Christianity felt like an important thing to communicate." Tom Bissell's 'Apostle' takes a ride-along through unanswerable questions about Jesus' disciples 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z That, however, isn’t true: Robertson’s remarks were highly reflective of his personal worldview, which is informed by a fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity. Phil Robertson’s hate speech continues: Why won’t A&E take a stand against its “Duck Dynasty” star? 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Writing, for example comes to Ireland quite late, comes with Christianity. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z It also draws on major world religions like Hinduism and Christianity, and on “the existential phenomenology of Heidegger, Kierkegaard and Buber.” Bid for ‘Star Wars’ Religion Is Shot Down 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z The reader is moved to understand the helpless rage, and final violent actions, that are Okonkwo’s response to the enormous, and perhaps baffling, political and economic power that came with Christianity and Colonialism. Chinua Achebe: The man who rediscovered Africa 2013-03-22T14:45:00Z Russia has relied on its version during the last few centuries to not only legitimize its expansion, especially into parts of today’s Ukraine, but also lay claim to the mantle of truest defender of Christianity. The Myths That Made, and Still Make, Russia 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z "We went through every line of dialogue and every scene with them to make sure it was a really faithful adaptation," Walden Media's president Michael Flaherty told Christianity Today at the time. From Harry Potter to Narnia: the pressure on film franchises to perform 2010-12-09T22:59:00Z For a millennium after its construction in the sixth century, this was the world’s largest cathedral, the most prominent monument to Byzantine Christianity. Museums: In Turkey?s Museums, Sacred and Secular Interweave 2010-05-25T22:26:00Z In case you’re wondering why Worthen is qualified to tell people what not to say, she is an assistant professor of history who focuses on conservative Christianity. Talking while female: an expert guide to the things you definitely should not say 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Disparagement of pride is rampant in Christianity, and don’t for a moment think that queer people fail to make this connection. How LGBTQ love saves Christianity: A priest explains 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z The story is also framed as an apologetic for Christianity, which seems to me to doubly victimize Lucretia. A powerful opera about a horrible subject 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z His born-again Christianity, he figures, gives him “more in common with, and more insight into, the most radical Muslim who read his Quran than the unbeliever who never opened his Bible.” A Comic Novel About the George W. Bush No One Knows 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z We wouldn’t conflate “A Prairie Home Companion” with commentary on Christianity. American Identity, Muslim Identity 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z In 1696, he penned his Christianity Not Mysterious, a book deeply indebted to Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z "Macbeth," so it says, "was a king of the Scots whose rule was marked by efficient government and the promotion of Christianity." Rehabilitate Macbeth for Scotland? If you want history, go to the library 2013-02-15T18:58:09Z The exhibition, which presents 1,000 pieces, including icons, opened on July 26 as part of celebrations marking the 1,025th anniversary of events that brought Christianity to Ukraine and Russia. ArtsBeat: Museum Director in Ukraine Paints Over a Mural She Doesn’t Like 2013-08-01T16:51:45Z They will say that the wounded former believer was prone to anxiety or depression or obsession in the first place—that his Christianity somehow got corrupted by his predisposition to psychological problems. The sad, twisted truth about conservative Christianity’s effect on the mind 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z But it wasn’t just the Seventh-day Adventist that were a target, it was all Christianity sects that deviate from the mainstream with curious beliefs. Bill Maher goes there, takes on Ben Carson’s religion: “We know where those fingers have been, in every war in human history” 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z Nor did Copernicus or most other early modern advocates of the new astronomy think it was incompatible with Christianity. The Twain Shall Meet 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z But in the nearly three millenniums of the city’s recorded past, Christianity is but a chapter. Rome, Sacred Ground for Nearly 3,000 Years, and Counting 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Not every extreme form of Christianity ends with cyanide Kool-Aid in Guyana. I grew up in an off-the-grid Christian commune. Here's what I know about America's religious beliefs 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z Short version: people here get jokes about Christianity. Stephen Fry takes US sitcom role and shark-attack jokes bite the dust 2013-03-19T15:20:24Z For the most part the dominant religions of the region, in particular Islam, were fairly tolerant of the minority ones, more so than Christianity was towards its pagan precursors in western Europe. Not just the faiths of Abraham 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Chick saw a long list of practices and beliefs as enemies of true Christianity. Jack T. Chick, Cartoonist Whose Tracts Preached Salvation, Dies at 92 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The idea of the deathbed conversion raises another question: even if an atheist were to accept a theistic worldview, why should he choose to adopt Christianity, rather than any of the world’s many other religions? The Fantasy of the Deathbed Conversion 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Kline, whose ancestry is Pennsylvania Dutch — “a very gentle form of Christianity” — said “Unsilent Night” carries “the whole accretion of a lifetime of befuddled spiritual pursuits.” Critic’s Notebook: ‘Unsilent Night’ and Participatory Music 2012-12-19T22:17:40Z Not only did his work herald a new age of Christianity, one where the church's iron grip was significantly loosened, but without the simple idioms that litter his translation, modern English would be immeasurably poorer. TV highlights 06/06/2013 2013-06-06T06:00:02Z As Orwell taught, it isn't the labels – Christianity, socialism, Islam, democracy, two legs bad, four legs good, the works – that are definitive, but the acts done in their names. My hero: George Orwell by Margaret Atwood 2013-01-18T20:00:04Z “That’s all I am. If it came down to Christianity and writing, I’d let the writing go. God is bigger than a book.” J. California Cooper, Award-Winning Writer, Dies at 82 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Still, there are enough signifiers of a larger story—a contemporary scene in a bar, the Mvskoke adoption of Christianity—to highlight Harjo’s two modes. Joy Harjo, the Poet of American Memory 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The tablet is chiseled with 20 lines of Samaritan script with principles that are fundamental to Judaism and Christianity. Centuries-old Ten Commandments tablet goes under hammer for $850,000 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Central to family life is Christianity and David, 61, leads a church on Saturdays in a small school classroom. Four generations of a South African family 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z That point is seconded by Ms. Coffman, who worked as an editor at Christianity Today before entering academia. A Religious Legacy, With Its Leftward Tilt, Is Reconsidered 2013-07-23T20:45:51Z Pope Francis, whose criticisms of unbridled capitalism have prompted some to label him a Marxist, said in an interview published on Sunday that communists had stolen the flag of Christianity. Pope says communists are closet Christians 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z At the time, Christianity was illegal under the Roman Empire. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z From her call to violently “crush” Islam or convert Muslims to Christianity to her desire to deny Muslims their First Amendment rights under the U.S. Five atheists who ruin it for everyone else 2012-08-04T14:01:00Z West movingly describes the ways that patriarchy, Christianity and gender-based violence unite in the person of the tyrannical Samuel. Review | The spellbinding ‘Revival Season’ makes Monica West an author to watch 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z “Wallet-sized versions were distributed to soldiers and sailors during World War II,” said Mr. Johnson, of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity. Searching for a Jesus Who Looks More Like Me 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z She had also begun to bristle at her perceived role as a poster child of progressive Christianity, and question whether such a concept can even exist. Julien Baker Explores the Art of Doubt on ‘Little Oblivions’ 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z History is all around here, on a road winding south along the Red Sea coast from the birthplace of Christianity to the birthplace of Islam. Music: Arabian Night: Distant Heat Music Show in Jordan 2010-08-06T22:08:00Z Perhaps his most famous piece, “Western Civilization and Christianity,” depicted a nearly life-size Christ being crucified on an American fighter plane in Vietnam. León Ferrari, Provocative Argentine Conceptual Artist, Dies at 92 2013-08-01T03:33:50Z But the reduction of Christianity into just another political group feels like a dilution, a conversion of wine into water. 'American Jesus' a superficial look at Protestant subcultures in U.S. 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Lewis's other works include "The Screwtape Letters", and Westminster Abbey described his "Mere Christianity" as "a classic of Christian apologetics, seeking to explain the fundamental Christian teachings to a general audience." Narnia author Lewis to be honored at Poets' Corner 2012-11-22T15:36:55Z "Lee Strobel was a journalist who investigated the claims of Christianity as a skeptic," he said. Fourth Sunday of Lent: Amid 'tragedy' of hopelessness today, reason to rejoice 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Christianity and the horrors of the second world war are fed into the mix, too, as the book tries – with an elusive logic typical of Sjón – to unify its disparate themes. The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review 2012-06-22T21:55:06Z Kichijiro keeps denouncing Christianity to save his own skin, only to run back to Rodrigues for forgiveness: The turnaround time between betrayal and repentance gets shorter and shorter, becoming a kind of bitter slapstick. Review: Scorsese's 'Silence' Gorgeous and Haunting 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z “When you see people weaponize Christianity in this horrifically abusive psycho-manipulation, I think it’s so, so sad and hypocritical because you can’t call yourself a Christian but also try to condition people to hate themselves.” After a Quick Breather, Chloë Grace Moretz Comes Out Fighting 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z The history of Christianity is recounted variously as propaganda or “a blood sacrifice” along the lines—and I’m not making this up—of the Aztecs’ ritual practices. Review: Anodyne ‘Civilizations’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z In the fourth century, after Christianity had spread across the country, some Egyptians started to describe the pyramids as former granaries. My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z For 150 years Portugal and Kongo remained on peaceful terms, founded on trade and conversion of the nobility to Christianity. Angola, Figures of Power - review 2010-11-23T13:59:00Z She’s often thrown into the same boat as The Good Wife’s Grace Florrick, because both are always trying to convert their families to Christianity. Terrible teens on TV: the brats that need to grow up 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z In that book he said Christianity was the only religion that had examined scapegoating and sacrifice from the victim’s point of view. René Girard, French Theorist of the Social Sciences, Dies at 91 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z They went there not to convert Muslims, but to provide “spiritual enlightenment” to the Armenian, Assyrian and Chaldean Christians who lived in Iran but whose Christianity was deemed to be “twisted and degenerate.” What Has Gone Wrong Between Iran and the United States? 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z In America we love to enforce Christianity at every turn. Charlie Brown v Blue Peter: holiday TV specials in the US and UK face off 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z By the middle of the 20th century, the global center of Christianity had begun shifting away from Europe to Africa, Asia and Latin America. Searching for a Jesus Who Looks More Like Me 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z In Christianity, millennial expectations involve the return of Jesus and the final judgment of the living and the dead. Why are people calling Bitcoin a religion? 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Lithuania was the last country in Europe to embrace Christianity, but when it did, it went all in, and unlike their Baltic neighbors, Lithuanians largely managed to cling to their Catholic identity through Soviet rule. 36 Hours in Vilnius, Lithuania 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z As for Roof, whose supporters have already started a group on Facebook, accusing fingers are now pointing at this massacre as confirmation that white Christianity is under siege. Fox News is wrong about Charleston: Religion isn’t a victim of the massacre, it’s a weapon 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z For some tribes, conversion to Christianity meant "destroying clan paraphernalia," including totem poles. Book review: History of totem pole is a story of near-death and rebirth of an art form 2010-05-26T23:20:00Z The doctor, who finds the English climate abysmal and the people repulsive, submits, even affecting to forsake Islam for Christianity. Review | For your playlist: The best new audiobooks of the month 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z I was raised in both the Brooklyn hood and the Upper East Side, in Christianity and Judaism. Lenny Kravitz: ‘I don’t see myself as cool. Generally I’m goofy and ridiculous’ 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z You might, for example, know you both once lived in Philadelphia, prefer dogs, practice Christianity, enjoy reading books, and that smoking pot is a disqualifier. Does digital dating put women at an evolutionary disadvantage? 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Talk of relationships, sex, soccer, dogs, careers, Christianity, God and their shared frustration with secular life lasted until dawn. Why Wait? When You Know, You Know. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z The judge urged him to become an evangelist about the dangers of drugs, and, having committed to Christianity partway into his incarceration, he did. Rick Stevens, Funk-Soul Singer Convicted of Murder, Dies at 77 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z This novel brought together and dramatised preoccupations that had been present in his fiction from the beginning, such as the hypocrisy of Christianity and the fascination with power. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z Blair's Christianity made me angry, and New Labour was a joke. Tim Roth: who's the daddy? 2012-05-20T19:00:12Z As a historian of the Bible in American life, I can attest that such shallow reading in service of political and cultural agendas has long been a fixture of evangelical Christianity. Cherry-picking the Bible and using verses out of context has been done for centuries 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z “I was a hurtin’ buckaroo,” he told the publication Canadian Christianity. Larry Coryell, dazzling guitarist who brought rock energy to jazz, dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Grumpy Dylan goes through approximately the same conversion to born-again Christianity as the real Dylan did in the late 1970s, though I'm Not There shows him becoming a preacher. Dylan biopic I'm Not There: a ragtag and Bob tale 2012-12-05T13:57:00Z Clark boldly reclaims American Christianity for the left, depicting a demanding faith of radical humanism, without pious displays or moralistic dogma, in service to love. The Best Movies I Saw at SXSW 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z There are also those conservative commentators who argue that Gibson was scorned in Hollywood for his rightwing sympathies and vocal Christianity, not for what we are now obliged to think of as “locker-room talk”. Can Mel Gibson ever be rehabilitated? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z With an engaging, casual voice and an easy humor, Mr. Lentz sidles up to the idea of a self-help book rooted in Christianity, and then aims for something different. Tattoos, Bieber, Black Lives Matter and Jesus 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z "Christ Actually" is about the birth of Christianity and the enduring role of Christ in light of the related moral catastrophes of war and genocide. 'Christ Actually' argues for belief through imitation 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z The fact that Colson was "born again" into evangelical Christianity as he was about to be charged in the Watergate scandal caused much snickering in the press. Watergate felon Charles Colson dies at 80 2012-04-21T21:06:00Z Descended on her father’s side from Jewish converts to Christianity, this girl who grew up to have raptures was the very pretty daughter of a woman who loved to read novels, a 16th-century Emma Bovary. ‘Teresa, My Love,’ Julia Kristeva’s Latest Novel 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z People who convert to evangelical Christianity, including those who grow up with it, are persuaded by the experience of a religious community, and by finding that evangelical theology seems to hold water. How biblical literalism took root 2011-02-21T10:59:00Z He embraced Christianity and enrolled at a Bible college in Rhode Island. Putting His Mark on the World 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z Born into a conservative family, Dixit wasn't allowed to listen to western music, wear jeans, or play guitar "which was associated with Christianity". Raghu Dixit: Loud enough for Lord Shiva 2011-04-13T21:00:00Z What preoccupies Endo is whether Western Christianity can take root in what the Inquisitor describes as “this swamp of Japan,” which seems inhospitable to outside forces. Review: Questions and Prayers Go Unanswered in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The piece, which aims to compare Christianity with other world traditions, includes artifacts used in several non-Western religious traditions and video of the artist’s spiritual music group, the Black Monks of Mississippi. Theaster Gates, Artes Mundi Recipient, to Share Prize money 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z As Freud presses Lewis, formerly an atheist, to explain his embrace of Christianity and the two men delve into psychiatric assessment, the playwright, Mr. St. Germain, plows familiar territory. ?Freud?s Last Session? Prepares to Move Closer to Broadway 2011-10-01T01:00:56Z But Ms. Chastain, who prepared for her role by studying paintings of the Madonna and practicing meditation, said she does not see it as a film about Christianity. Without Ever Showing Up, Malick Is Talk of Cannes 2011-05-16T20:16:10Z He left out her heterodox Christianity, love for animals and a penchant for minimal punctuation. Michael Dirda on the misunderstood poet Stevie Smith 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z In speaking about Christianity with Algerian Muslims, “She would find their common ground” rather than proselytize, Ms. Rockness said. A Renewed Spotlight on Two Women Artists 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The central conflict of "Vikings: Valhalla" is between Vikings who have converted to Christianity and those who have remained pagans. Ritual love of “Vikings: Valhalla” 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z By outfitting Old Testament warriors in medieval armor, the book implicitly linked the crusaders to ancient Jewish leaders who were interpreted as prefiguring Jesus and anticipating the triumph of Christianity. Exhibitions of Medieval Biblical Masterworks 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Over the summer, as the controversy died down, Mr. Okovacs announced the theme of next year’s opera season, which seems far less likely to arouse criticism in the right-wing press: Christianity. Hungary Turned Far Right. That’s Meant Millions for Its Opera. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z That’s partly because this cheery documentary — about the uneasy alignment of L.G.B.T. life and avid Christianity in the town of Eureka Springs, Ark. — refuses to grapple with its glaring contradictions. ‘The Gospel of Eureka’ Review: Christianity and Queerness Intersect in a Small Town 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Of course religious connections between us abound, but not any more or less than the connections that exist between Islam and Christianity, or indeed any grouping of the Abrahamic trio. The Infidel: a case of mistaken identity 2010-04-08T11:00:00Z We learn the history of Popisho, how emancipated slaves went up against Indigenous islanders and together they created a new society, and how even now the push and pull between Christianity and Popisho’s gods continues. A Magic-Filled Island Where Life’s Struggles Rage 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z On Friday, March 27th, Yee uploaded a video that criticized Lee Kuan Yew, the recently deceased founding father of postwar Singapore, and also took a swipe at organized Christianity. The Arrest of a Teen-Aged YouTube Star 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z It’s said that he performed miracles, converting thousands to Christianity in the process, and then continued traveling east. In Old Goa, India, a saint’s relics raise mysterious questions He hoped, of course, the Jews would also convert to Christianity. The Invention of the Land of Israel by Shlomo Sand – review 2013-04-18T09:01:01Z Of course, I’m entirely aware of the problems in modern American Christianity. What Hitchens got wrong: Abolishing religion won’t fix anything 2013-12-07T12:30:00Z If Ye Love Me was a choral supplication evoking the names of God according to Islam, Hinduism and Christianity, written for the newly formed multifaith ensemble the MIF Sacred Sounds Choir. John Tavener – review 2013-07-08T17:14:59Z The controversy revolves around Current 93, a British postindustrial rock band that deals in themes of death and Christianity. Unsound Festival Relocates Concerts After Religious Accusations 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Johanssen wants to reconcile Christianity and genetic science by creating a new race. The History Lurking Behind “Orphan Black” 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z At two defining moments in the history of Christianity, arguments about visual art were central. Aisha's Cushion: Religious Art, Perception and Practice in Islam by Jamal J Elias - review 2012-12-27T07:00:01Z Co-produced with his wife, the actress Claire Coffee, it’s his most directly personal work yet, and also his most potent reckoning with spirituality and Christianity. The Endless Curiosity of Chris Thile 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z In a recent email exchange, Mr. Whitfield discussed his expansive definition travel writing, Christianity’s influence on the genre and the best travel books of the 20th century. ArtsBeat: Peter Whitfield Talks About the History of Travel Literature 2012-03-14T14:30:34Z "Christianity", rather than the "Jesus cult", manages to begin as folk religion, locally grounded and antagonistic to the state, and is transformed, by bad old St Paul, into a universalist, elite and state-supporting religion. And Man Created God by Selina O'Grady - review 2012-12-20T07:00:02Z There is an exuberant impatience and physicality to his figure that is difficult to contain within a conventional understanding of Christianity. Review | The bodies of his work: Michelangelo’s muscular mastery is on display at the Met 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Later, in an attempt to clarify his remarks, he said, “My entire life, being an African-American, Christianity was forced down my throat.” Kanye West’s Sunday Service Is Full of Longing and Self-Promotion 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z In fact, by the 1970s it appeared that the Southern Baptists might be ready to move into a position at the vanguard of Christianity. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z Not for nothing does St Paul's version of Christianity brand certain forms of looking as sinful. The Big Screen by David Thomson – review 2012-10-12T21:55:01Z Though he converted to Christianity, he never lost touch with his roots. Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z We are hardly the most controversial intrusion in the 75 years or so since their first contact with the wider world — try Christianity, colonialism and the Indonesian military for starters. In Indonesia, Many Islands and Many Faces 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z In this new era, though, Christianity is his raison d’être. Kanye West’s True Salvation on “Jesus Is King” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Contrasting Confucius’s beliefs with the teachings of Christianity and other religions, Mr. Zhang ultimately aims to question spirituality in contemporary China, according to the museum. Special Report: The New Art Season: Showcasing the Masters, Old and New 2011-09-07T10:30:06Z My return to the Creation Museum Topics: Christianity, , , , Shadow Mountain Community Church is a massive ministry nestled in the rugged hills of suburban San Diego, and it is not an evil place. My return to the Creation Museum 2012-07-31T00:00:00Z With an increasingly majority of younger Americans accepting evolution as fact, Christianity for many under 35 is becoming a watered-down hybrid of eastern philosophy and biblical teachings. Atheists have their number: How the Christian right is hastening religion’s decline 2014-03-25T11:50:00Z Her subsequent books, including “Adam, Eve and the Serpent,” “The Origin of Satan” and “Revelations,” have continued to complicate conventional understandings of Christianity and trace the persistence of ancient attitudes in modern society. Review | After her son and husband died, Elaine Pagels wondered why religion survives 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z “It was a very critical time in both Christianity and Judaism and everything we can know about that period is going to come from small clues,” Mr. Hendin said. U.S. Returns Rare Coin Minted by Jews During Rebellion From Rome 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z He received, by his own estimation, three hundred gifts of spiritual books, “only one hundred of which were different copies of C. S. Lewis’s ‘Mere Christianity.’ David Brooks’s Conversion Story 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Everywhere Ms. Griswold travels, Christianity and Islam are debased by their own practitioners. Books of The Times: In ?The Tenth Parallel,? by Eliza Griswold, Religions Clash 2010-08-17T23:26:00Z The glimpse of medieval Ireland and early Celtic Christianity was a real thrill. Northern Ireland’s lake lands: Rain, history and the Mellons 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z “Overall, there are more than four former Christians for every convert to Christianity,” he said in an interview with USA Today. Is Christianity toast? New report shows sharp decline in Americans who identify as Christian 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z The couple met at Harvard Divinity School, from which they each received a master’s degree in theological studies, she focusing on religions of the Americas and he on early Christianity and Second Temple Judaism. Lauren May, Ryan Adams 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Here is the millennial complex in full bloom, the craziest, most poisonous expression of anti-government paranoia fueled by a corrupted brand of Christianity. ‘Fourth of July Creek,’ by Smith Henderson Christianity itself has to be rejected by the church in order, paradoxically, to get back to the radical scandal of Christianity. Christians should abandon Christianity 2013-04-21T16:00:00Z Their scholarly machismo made it possible for Lewis to do a very public volte-face from heartfelt atheism back to Christianity but never entertain the thought of a female Inkling. J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and 'The Fellowship' of fantasy writers 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Central to family life is Christianity and David, 61, leads a church on Saturdays in a small school classroom. Four generations of a South African family 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Even Abraham — father to Judaism, Islam, and Christianity — when he was unable to produce an heir with his wife, Sarah, had a son by his slave Hagar. Jesus would back gay marriage 2012-09-16T12:00:00Z For example, early missionaries were fascinated with all the pomp and grandeur of Tibetan Buddhism; they compared it with Christianity, with Catholicism, and they felt that there must be some relationship between the religions. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z He sees no conflict with scientific discovery and the tenets of Christianity, including the creation of the universe and life on Earth. 1,300-foot asteroid to pass near Earth 2011-11-08T07:06:00Z The problem is that this won’t happen because, for most people in the same position as my principal, the primary objective is not education, but indoctrination to Christianity. Godsmacked: I’m an atheist at a hardcore Christian academy 2014-01-24T13:00:00Z I sat with Mel and talked at length about it, and my only concern was: I don’t want to do this film if the message is, “Christianity is the only way.” Andrew Garfield on Faith, Politics and Making 'Hacksaw Ridge' 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z "What Christianity promises is eternal life. That I get," he said. Tom Bissell's 'Apostle' takes a ride-along through unanswerable questions about Jesus' disciples 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z If early Christianity is notable for anything, it's for popularizing the idea of linear time, the life of Christ as Hegel argued being a singular, unrepeatable event from which history moves ever-forward. Explaining the Many References in the Movie 'mother!' 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Yeah, I was raised C.O.G.I.C. which is Church of God in Christ, a very conservative, very strict denomination of Christianity in the black community. Why William Jackson Harper of ‘The Good Place’ Can’t Quit the Theater 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Turning the last page, a reader will have little sense of what Sveen himself believes with regard to Christianity. A Norwegian Novel Complicates the Canon of New Testament Fiction 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The tablet is inscribed in Samaritan script with the principles which are fundamental to Judaism and Christianity. Centuries-old Ten Commandments tablet heads to auction in Texas 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Though there have been many parallels to Christianity drawn from the text — the story invokes criticism of long-held beliefs — the series primarily tracks two kids who come of age while exploring parallel universes. 19 HBO original programs to be excited about in 2019 — "True Detective," "Watchmen," and more 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z One archaeologist said the burial opened a window into the transitional period when the pagan Anglo-Saxons were gradually adopting Christianity. UK experts find 7th-century teen buried in her bed 2012-03-16T17:51:10Z Isn't that the message of every great world religion from Christianity to Buddhism? Oxytocin: could the 'trust hormone' rebond our troubled world? 2011-08-20T23:08:00Z That did not stop clerical eulogists, however, from making what Mr. Lengel calls “exaggerated claims, unsupported by evidence, of his Christianity.” Books of The Times: How George Washington, So Help Him God, Acquired His Many Myths 2011-03-21T22:05:02Z You classify Trumpism as "a civil religion deeply connected with Christianity but also influenced by capitalism, regionalism and politics." Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z The 20th-century artist Stanley Spencer became renowned either for the painful honesty of his nude portraits or for the highly personalised Christianity of his visionary reinventions of biblical resurrection. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-15T23:07:37Z Return Christianity to the church is not as dangerous, it is revitalizing. A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z At the same time, there are harmful variants of Islam and Christianity — specifically the rigid fundamentalist versions — that cause the host mind to process information in a biased way, think irrationally, and become delusional. How religious fundamentalism hijacks your brain, as explained by a neuroscientist 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Indeed, quite the opposite: it would shine because Protestant Christianity would inform the state and religious principles and practices would be enforced by the state through force and even death. John M. Barry's 'Roger Williams': separating church and state 2012-01-25T23:32:07Z But I find atheism just as hard to get my head around as I find fundamental Christianity. Magazine Preview: The Dark Art of ?Breaking Bad? 2011-07-06T12:20:00Z Some of the traditions they encountered shared certain similarities to Christianity and were also deemed religions. Why are people calling Bitcoin a religion? 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Preachers took the gospel of evangelical Christianity from place to place, and church membership flourished. Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Anne Rice is 'committed to Christ ... but not to Christianity'. Anne Rice 'quits being a Christian' 2010-07-30T13:23:00Z A cult fascination with religious relics and their supposed supernatural properties began shortly after the establishment of Christianity. Relic hunter: A missing Christian relic, the fall of Nazi Germany and a mystery that flummoxed historians for centuries 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z They also depict how Christianity would ultimately “triumph” over Islam. Malta: A citadel of many cultures in the middle of the Mediterranean 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z She is also at work on a novel based on her family’s buried history as “conversos,” Spanish Jews who converted to Christianity to avoid persecution during the Inquisition. The club Julia Pierson is joining: Life after a Washington scandal An important tenet of Christianity is to be with other believers in community. Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z In Greene’s party, where evangelical Christianity and politics are ever converging, surely that particular bit of symbolism wasn’t lost. Perspective | Marjorie Taylor Greene’s coat sent a message even before she heckled Biden 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z "Agora" presents a version of her story very much rooted in the whole "science vs. religion" thing, as well as conflicts between various faiths brought about by the rise of Christianity. If you like 'Agora,' Scarecrow suggests 'Kingdom of Heaven,' 'Contact,' 'Gladiator' and 'Rome' 2010-07-22T21:42:00Z Tell us, Bishop Amos, exactly how that conflicts with Christianity? HGTV: Winning the war for gay marriage 2012-05-17T16:00:00Z Every year devotees of the society, which combines a form of Christianity with Indian mysticism celebrate, their divine new year, which lasts three days from August 19. Pilgrims dance in cosmic energy ritual in Bulgaria 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z The religion that the Coens grew up with wasn’t Christianity, but it was the American religion—Hollywood. The Coen Brothers’ Marvellous “Hail, Caesar!” 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z That may seem odd; but Paul was, in effect, the inventor of Christianity, the founding theorist of the new religion. Rethinking Easter through Paul the Apostle: Why evangelicals get it wrong 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z The movie, a mild rip-off of “The Santa Clause” and its ilk, imagines a world of Easter-time joy from which even the slightest trace of Christianity is absent. | 'Hop': Bunny Doesn?t Want to Work, Just Wants to Bang the Drum All Day 2011-03-31T22:41:55Z Rather, movements like "muscular Christianity" arose at the turn of the 20th century, blending fitness and bodybuilding techniques with Christian piety. Making sweat feel spiritual didn’t start with SoulCycle – a religion scholar explains 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Stewart argues that America’s founders drew inspiration not so much from Christianity and British political theory but rather from ancient pagan philosophers like Lucretius, and from Spinoza’s concept of natural divinity. National Book Awards Nominees, Nonfiction 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The goal was to convert the state’s Muslims to Christianity. Christian group says demon sex makes you gay 2012-11-26T19:10:00Z The 20th-century extremist thinkers he discusses in his book — among them a “fascist savant” and a “right-wing Marxist” — derided Christianity, too, for an egalitarianism and compassion that they just couldn’t abide. Where Have All the Liberals Gone? 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Domestic light is contrasted with spiritual light; the light of Christianity implicitly the Crusaders' source of destruction. Poetry of the Taliban - review 2012-05-25T21:55:05Z It was the first time the state and the Christian religion had been set apart since Constantine the Great had made Christianity the established religion of the Roman Empire. The Book of Mormon’s foggy origins 2012-08-12T16:01:00Z It’s a very religious piece: He was Muslim, but he had an experience that turned him totally toward Christianity, which was remarkable in the Soviet Union. An American Leads the Odesa Philharmonic to Berlin 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z In previous novels he’s gone after vampires, the Grim Reaper, Christianity and more, in search of targets. ‘The Serpent of Venice’: a Shakespeare-Poe mash-up 2014-04-24T20:52:07Z "Lewis becoming the poster boy for Christianity upset Tolkien," Wernher Pramschufer of Tolkien & Lewis production company Attractive Films told the Hollywood Reporter. Theological JRR Tolkein biopic secures Expendables 2 director 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Evangelical Christianity, with all its emphasis on Jesus as friend, risks domesticating the divine, pulling God too much within the dimensions of the human perspective. The cringe at the heart of Christmas 2010-12-11T07:00:00Z The icy, grim ground they met upon arrival corresponded well with their vision of an authentic Christianity: one shorn of its Elizabethan frills and scrubbed of its insidious pagan stains. Actually, the right invented the “War on Christmas”: The real history behind today’s phoniest persecution 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The critique of Christianity’s role cannot be ignored. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Bissell is enamored with Paul, an apostle but not one of the original 12, whose eloquent preaching and letters set the church's painful evolution away from its Jewish roots to a Gentile Christianity. Tom Bissell's 'Apostle' takes a ride-along through unanswerable questions about Jesus' disciples 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Hugo insisted that Christianity involved a commitment to love, sacrifice and pacifism that secular society could no longer fathom. Was Dorothy Day a Saint or a Subversive? 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Her viral blog posts about parenting young children and finding her place within Christianity were turned into a best-selling essay collection. Glennon Doyle chose honesty. Now fans are following her lead. 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z But, while he argues that religion is “universal”—part of “our social skin” as humans—it sometimes seems that “religion,” for him, is basically Christianity, or a monotheistic belief in “the almighty God.” Do primates practice religion? 2013-06-04T15:43:00Z Toller’s church, with its slender steeple and whitewashed clapboards, evokes both a bygone era of American Christianity and a battered civic order, a small-town world of hard work, humility and faith. Review: ‘First Reformed’ Is an Epiphany. Ethan Hawke Is, Too. 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z While Christianity doesn’t dictate the culture of the Willamette football team, it has played a dominant role in Mertens’ life. Football player’s coming-out story disproves every dumb theory about gay athletes 2014-02-01T13:00:00Z However genuine these expressions of individual faith may have been, they also took place during the years when evangelical Christianity was asserting itself in partisan politics on such issues as abortion and gay rights. Football and Politics 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z As Christianity spread across ancient Egypt, textile weavers began stitching motifs of crosses and portraits of saints on clothing, curtains, bedding and furniture cushions. A Quirky Board Game With Versions Spanning 400 Years 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The play aptly summed up Armenia, which is considered to be the first nation to adopt Christianity as its state religion, in A.D. Next Stop: In Armenia, Art in the Shadow of Ararat 2012-10-05T15:09:14Z The Alawites, who are often categorised as an offshoot of Shia Islam, share the belief of the Druze and the Yazidis in reincarnation, while also being influenced by Christianity. Not just the faiths of Abraham 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Topics covered include Alexander the Great’s campaigns, the rise of Christianity, the African slave trade, the Panama Canal, apartheid, and the Haitian and American Revolutions. Catch a Buzz With Two New Books About Bugs 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z My family’s brand of Christianity involved many chores. As overseas missionaries, you make a lot of trips to the airport. Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z For instance, there are moderate versions of Christianity and Islam, that promote qualities like a sense of community and a moral code that fosters ethical behavior. How religious fundamentalism hijacks your brain, as explained by a neuroscientist 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z O’Reilly called the campaign an affront to Christianity and The American Way. Bill O’Reilly had a psychotherapist diagnose “sadistic” atheists 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Apologetics is a branch of Christianity whose adherents actively defend their faith, and Ham is a robust debater. A giant ark is just the start. These creationists have a bigger plan for recruiting new believers. 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z That’s a bit like Jesus Christ returning to announce that introducing Christianity was all a big mistake. Six reasons we may have another bank crisis 2012-08-20T17:53:00Z What are the ways that Christianity shaped my morality? A Choreographer Dances Out His Feelings About Race and Religion 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The impending crisis for Meyerism—and it’s one that has affected many religious movements, including both Scientology and Christianity—is that its leader is about to die. “It’s not a cult!”: Scientology looms large over “The Path,” a sexy new drama about faith and doubt 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Russian President Vladimir Putin, by all accounts, ironically, sees himself as the defender of Christendom and the Orthodox Christianity. Ukraine pastor remains amid war to bring God's hope to the suffering 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z It’s hard to argue with his conclusion that white supremacy is somehow genetically encoded into white Christianity in the United States. Is the White Church Inherently Racist? 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z This isn’t a personal prayer, but a snapshot commentary on the relationship between the Haitians and Christianity’s probing influence as experienced by Butler himself. Arcade Fire’s Rare Power Shines on Reflektor 2013-10-28T18:41:49Z But beneath a scene of fermented woe, he incites a storm of theological and political arguments about the founding of Israel and the origins of Christianity. In the novel ‘Judas,’ Amos Oz wrestles with Jewish attitudes toward Jesus 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z “Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam” is on view through Feb. 27 at the New York Public Library; nypl.org. Exhibition Review: Abraham?s Progeny, and Their Texts 2010-10-22T22:50:00Z You say yourself that Christianity contains many paradoxes. ArtsBeat: Ross Douthat Talks About the State of American Christianity 2012-04-26T14:36:32Z The Flood found its proper place in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and flood stories crop up in Hindu, American Indian, and African story-telling as well. “Noah” wasn’t the first: 5 flood stories you may not know 2014-04-12T14:30:00Z He thought American English to be “synonymous with freedom, republicanism, Christianity and a whole host of other values” that Americans held dear. How to Describe America’s Character Through Its Favorite How-To Books 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Rome soon followed suit, as the Catholic Church and city rulers there and elsewhere deemed the Jewish faith a consummate threat to Christianity. ‘Ghetto,’ by Mitchell Duneier 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z According to him, white Christianity has not merely been a passive bystander in the construction of this nation’s racial caste system, it has been the primary cultural and religious institution creating, promoting and preserving it. Is the White Church Inherently Racist? 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z The same concern for Christianity led to the arrival of American Presbyterian missionaries in Iran at the end of the 19th century. What Has Gone Wrong Between Iran and the United States? 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z "It is an indescribable tragedy that Christianity is now under such threat in the Middle East," he said. Britain's Prince Charles calls on different faiths to respect each other 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z She was arrested for war resistance activities in 1943 and jailed in an Italian prison where she pretended to convert to Christianity. French Art Dealer Spends Time in Detention in Case of Missing Artworks 2011-07-20T19:21:28Z Today, taking a tour of the town’s oldest sites is like witnessing the turmoil of early Christianity, with its clash of Roman, Byzantine and Arian motifs. Ravenna, Italy, Glittering Still 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z There are obviously regressive tendencies in all religions, particularly Christianity, which is not to say Christianity and Islam are equivalent. Sam Harris talks Islam, ISIS, atheism, GOP madness: “We are confronting people, in dozens of countries, who despise more or less everything that we value” 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism and the more relaxed or progressive versions of Christianity are not in their argumentative sights. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z The Divine Comedy is the supreme cultural expression of Christianity. From Dante to Dan Brown: how artists have portrayed the Divine Comedy 2013-05-14T15:44:06Z “The one thing that really was important for me was to discover that in Judaism, you could argue with God, and in Christianity you better not,” he said. A Defiant Exhibit by an Artist, at a Museum He Helped Create 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z George Eliot translated Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity fluently and flexibly, and its influence is strong in her work. Ragnar?k: the doom of the gods 2011-08-05T21:55:10Z My grandfather, a man steeped in Christianity, was one of those people. The cry of my conscience about my family's Nazi collaboration 2011-01-12T08:30:01Z But when she heard Oprah try to replace Christianity and Jesus with the ALS, Owens writes, it turned her into a crusading opponent of the fundraising trend. Conservative columnist decries “satanic” ice bucket challenge 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z She later finds herself rejecting the Christianity imposed on her by her pious mother and being drawn to the life she once knew. Shining a Light on Black and Brown Representation in Film 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z It’s as if without resorting to theology Dad lives the tenets of Christianity. Kent Haruf’s ‘Benediction’: last days of a small-town life 2013-03-20T20:07:53Z Even so serious a theologian as Jonathan Edwards once claimed the slave trade was the will of God—regrettable but providential, Edwards believed, because it introduced so many Africans to Christianity. Can the Church of Latter-day Saints accept its racist history? 2013-05-04T14:00:00Z Christianity came to Georgia about as early as technically possible: the first century A.D. High in the Mountains and Monasteries of Georgia 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z For years, the village’s spiritual needs have been tended by a conventional brand of Christianity imposed by the local plantation owner, to whom most of the parishioners owe their livelihood. Revisiting Marlon James’s Debut Novel, ‘John Crow’s Devil’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z No. For all of Phillips’s late immersion in the Christianity of his upbringing and his newly adopted mission of visiting prisoners, there is no heroic action here of operatic scope. Opera Review: Opera Celebrates Bum Phillips, Who Led the Houston Oilers 2014-03-21T22:01:54Z Mr. Mano was long captivated by the battle between good and evil that is a central element of Christianity. D. Keith Mano, Christian novelist who explored extremes of sex and faith, dies at 74 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Combining the sort of conspiracy theory that made Dan Brown rich with the endless fascination of Jerusalem, Raff and Kring set their story at the nexus of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. ABC's 'American Crime,' USA's 'Dig' up the ante on Thursdays 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The basic outline of Christianity tells us that both Franklin and McCain have gone on to the same hereafter — and it’s a nice idea, but how so? Perspective | Aretha Franklin and John McCain, off to the sweet hereafter by different means 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z “We can feel how difficult it has been for this reserved scholar of early Christianity to enter the black hole of her feelings,” Mark Epstein writes in his review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Pelagius and much of early Celtic Christianity “did not see a newborn as a sinner in need of forgiveness.” ‘Born Bad’: How the idea that we’re all sinners has shaped Western culture 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Presumably, at least part of that audience was from the segment of Christianity that affirms a seven-day creation a few thousand years ago. Television Review: Neil deGrasse Tyson Hosts ‘Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey’ 2014-03-07T23:00:27Z "I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being 'Christian' or to being part of Christianity," she said. Anne Rice 'quits being a Christian' 2010-07-30T13:23:00Z Towards the end of the 4th century, this pagan solstice celebration became interwoven with Christianity and the celebration of Christmas Day. How mulled wine went from ancient medicine to an Aussie winter warmer 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z In the journal he kept in those weeks, the last of his life, Merton seemed to be leaving behind everything that belongs to Christianity alone. The Modern Monkhood of Thomas Merton 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Christianity’s imprint on our literature isn’t necessarily about piety or doctrine — though that is sometimes the case. Imprinted by Belief 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z It’s a fable of what somebody heard Christianity was supposed to be — cute. 2004: ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and a Country at War With Itself 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Nader says he was always drawn to Christianity. Growing up, when Christianity was not only accepted but also widely practiced here, he would draw pictures of Mary and Jesus to hang on his wall. Homosexuality, God and ISIS: The secret life of a lonely gay Christian in Yemen 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z If I were a Christian, I would be compelled to view the Holocaust as the single greatest failure of Christianity since its origin. ‘Son of Saul’: An immersive portrait of life in a Nazi death camp 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z In it, Sharma plays Pi Patel, who, as a child, precociously combines Christianity, Buddhism and Islam into his own blend of religion. A 'Life' changing film for the young actor of 'Pi' 2012-11-16T15:44:08Z God seemed too absent in Buddhism, and she couldn’t stomach Christianity’s idea of inherited sin. The Writer Behind a Muslim Marvel Superhero on Her Faith in Comics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z "Sussex was once so impenetrably dense with trees that it was the last southern county to accept Christianity." How England Made the English by Harry Mount - review 2012-05-18T21:55:01Z Early Christianity and Paul himself are antinomian in their rejection of many Jewish laws, as the new sect of the Christ-followers separated itself from its origins in Judaism. Why America is so weird about sex 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Another highlights the Yuan dynasty’s religious diversity, with paintings, sculptures and textiles relating to Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Nestorian Christianity, Manichaeism and Islam. The Week Ahead: Sept. 26 ? Oct. 2 2010-09-24T16:00:00Z At one point he startles by saying, “In fact, I’m not an especially nice person altogether — which is one reason why I need Christianity.” An Essayist Searching for Alternate Worlds 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Filled with reams of religious dialogue, the novel fictionalizes history — the 17th-century purging of Christianity in Japan — as a means to explore religious faith and cultural difference. Review: Questions and Prayers Go Unanswered in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z European history, too, is incomprehensible without an understanding of the warring factions of Christianity and the book over whose subtleties of interpretation they were so ready to slaughter and torture each other. Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible 2012-05-19T20:30:01Z Perhaps that was a necessary move in the context of this concert, particularly given the history of Christianity’s legacy in Japan. Review: The White Light Festival Opens With a Journey to the East 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Abby basks in the purity of dedicating herself to unrealized potential: the unborn soul is so precious in this interpretation of Christianity, deemed innocent in a way that an actual living child could never be. The Messiness of Reproduction and the Dishonesty of Anti-Abortion Propaganda 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z This form of Christianity blends so well with the Republican Party because both are formed around a circle with self at the center. Jesus, big money and the GOP: Before Fox News, there was “The 700 Club” 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z It also speaks to Western Christianity's long tradition of demonizing queer, Black, Jewish, Indigenous and other people. Lil Nas X’s dance with the devil evokes tradition of resisting, mocking religious demonization 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Mainline and Unitarian congregations have embraced Michael Dowd’s Evolutionary Christianity, an interplay between Christian worship and scientific wonder. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z Some contemporary neo-Nazi and racist groups incorporate Norse symbolism and mythology, while others, following the Klan, use Christianity to frame their racist ideology as righteous or divine. Strange costumes of Capitol rioters echo the early days of the KKK — before the white sheets 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z “What I do know about Christianity is that we bear no prejudice, and everybody is welcome.” Perspective | Hollywood brightened Lady Gaga’s star. Las Vegas will protect her from oblivion. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Freya is a normal girl of our modern time, but Christianity doesn't exist and the people believe in Thor, Woden, Freyja, Frigg, and all the Viking Gods. The Sleeping Army by Francesca Simon - review 2013-04-07T14:00:00Z In Christianity, a cleric or another trusted person is often tapped to connect potential partners. The “I Do” of Addiction 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z In his writing, teaching and frequent public lectures on interfaith understanding, he invoked Old Testament Scripture to underscore the commonalities not only between Christianity and Judaism but also between antiquity and modernity. Lawrence Boadt, Priest, Publisher and Bible Scholar, Dies at 67 2010-07-30T20:47:00Z Schempp pointed out that his family was Unitarian and didn’t appreciate the school pushing Protestant Christianity on them. Five people who fought the Christian takeover of America 2012-08-16T17:47:00Z Otranto, I had learned, is literally haunted by an old act of evil: a 15th-century massacre — one in the long and bloody skirmish between Islam and Christianity — that Otrantans commemorate annually to this day. A Gothic Tour of Italy 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z But Daoism, Islam, Hinduism and Nestorian Christianity from Syria and Manichaeism from Persia also were practiced, and the Mongols showed deference for those different religions. NYC Exhibit Unveils Rich Treasures of Yuan Dynasty 2010-09-27T09:51:00Z I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican. 'I hate romantic comedies' 2010-03-21T22:00:00Z Spiritually adventurous and intellectually curious, the Kongo elite took an avid interest in Christianity and quickly learned the skill of writing. Review: ‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The conversion of the people of Umuaro to Christianity because Ezeulu did not perform the New Yam Festival foretold our inability to weather storms as a people, together. Chinua Achebe peered deep into the Nigerian psyche 2013-03-22T16:43:31Z “It’s a whole new spirit in Rome,” she said, “and this is evident when we have a new pope going back to real Christianity, which lately was far from the church.” Fashion and the Power of the Pulpit 2013-07-15T12:12:14Z Christianity, he observed in The Reasonableness of Christianity, "is a religion suited to vulgar capacities". Christianity: a faith for the simple 2011-01-31T13:00:01Z By profession, Mr. Aslan is not a scholar of ancient Judaism or Christianity. Books of The Times: Reza Aslan’s ‘Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth’ 2013-08-05T19:15:02Z Even the most hardline atheist will admit that Christianity got the music right. Oh come, let ye faithless have their carol service 2012-12-20T19:00:01Z Christianity is important to both of them and something they hope to share with their partner. Date Lab: He was prepared to get roasted 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z After Orthodox Christianity, Islam is the second biggest religion in Russia. Muslims celebrate Eid, ending Ramadan holy month 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z He also wrote an extracurricular essay on the alignment between secular democratic government and Christianity. What does Josh Hawley think he’s doing? 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z Now, atheism is a bit different from Christianity in that atheism isn’t a belief system. Toxic atheism drives people apart 2012-10-21T16:00:00Z It was the first nation to make Christianity its state religion, in 301. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z However, Roman thinkers did not use this term for Christianity in its earliest phases. From Biden’s giant Bible to Christian flags waved by rioters, "religion" means many different things 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z If the movie were about Christ, or Christianity, Eli wouldn't need a bible to spread the Gospel message and people wouldn't need to be literate to receive the Gospel message message. 2010-01-08T14:37:00Z Over the years, however, Barker’s reading caused him to start to doubt the truth not just of Christianity, but claims of God altogether. 5 religious leaders who became outspoken atheists 2013-03-27T12:44:00Z Though the elements were already in existence in the ancient world, the satanic witchcraft connection emerged strongly in the late Middle Ages, after Roman influence spread throughout Europe and Christianity became the dominant religion. What sparked our fear of witches — and what kept it burning so long? 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Why was the first president so vehement in his refusal to say that Christianity was the nation’s religion? God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z Henry Louis Gates Jr. journeys to Kenya, Egypt, Ethiopia and beyond in search of the origins of man and the rise of Christianity and Islam. What’s On TV Sunday: ‘When We Rise’ and ‘Tickled’ 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z One of the things that happened in the course of writing the book is that I walked away with an understanding what Christianity means to me. Everyone's baking bread at home now, and America's wheat doesn't harvest itself 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z It's basically this puritanical Calvinist Christianity that the Pilgrims forced down our throats. Comedian Eric Andre: "This country's got a s**tty history" 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z But it abruptly ends with the crucifixion, omitting the resurrection that is at the heart of the Easter story — and Christianity itself. Best Easter pageant ever? Half a century of "Jesus Christ Superstar" 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z Christianity is based on just such miracles, the changing of wine and bread into blood and flesh during the Eucharist. Perspective | Barnett Newman’s ‘Stations of the Cross’ draws pilgrims to the National Gallery 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The film is a fiercely satirical Kierkegaardian purge of the worldly institutions of Christianity, in favor of a true, pure, humble, and personally demanding faith. Jared Hess’s Bitter Religious Satire, “Don Verdean” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z What, after all, has Christianity ever done for us? The search goes on 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Like a typical high school junior, she’s contemplating college, mulling what to wear to the school formal and, in contrast to Paige’s immersion in Christianity, researching Buddhism. On ‘The Americans,’ Holly Taylor Plays a 15-Year-Old Whose ‘Whole Life Is a Lie’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z How did religion become a distinct activity, disentangled from ethnicity or culture, and how did Christianity come to have such a profound influence on Western thought? 13 Books to Watch For in November 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z “The further away from fundamentalist Christianity I got, the further away from athleticizing the act of music-making I got,” he said. The Endless Curiosity of Chris Thile 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z It is not merely the rise of evangelical Christianity that accounts for TV’s altered mood, but the dramatic realignment of women’s priorities since the most active days of the feminist movement. Television: On ?Friday Night Lights,? Abortion in a Small Town 2010-07-09T22:24:00Z From a barbaric bronze age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved – Judaism, Christianity, Islam. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z So he takes up not one but all religions — including Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam and Christianity — in hopes that some god will answer his prayers and help him find a way home. Bollywood musical 'PK' a radical film in extraterrestrial guise 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Ironically, the rise of the Christian Right over the course of the past three decades may well end up being the catalyst for Christianity’s rapid decline. Atheists have their number: How the Christian right is hastening religion’s decline 2014-03-25T11:50:00Z Shorn of its establishment baggage, Mr Spencer argues, Christianity still has much to say to an amnesiac world about human dignity, political freedom and economic inequality. The search goes on 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z And that several years later one of the shoguns decided to ban Christianity. How Working With Martin Scorsese Is Like a Religious Experience 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Regrettably, the price for conservative Christianity’s obsessive obstructionism largely gets paid, not by old white men with a death grip on tradition, but by young brown women and their children. “11-year-olds shouldn’t get IUDs!”: Fox News creates mythical preteen IUD seeker, ignoring the success of school-based reproductive healthcare clinics 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Spoto did not entirely leave his theological training or his interest in Christianity behind. Donald Spoto, Biographer of Hitchcock and Many More, Dies at 81 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z The show mocks Christianity repeatedly expressing the growing turn in opinion of South Korea's rapid development during the 1970s and 1980s and its connection with the growth of the church at the time. "Squid Game": The real debt crisis shaking South Korea that inspired the hit TV show 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “Now I wasn’t baptized. But I think that’s supposed to be what Christianity is about.” Jessica Chastain redeems a televangelist in ‘Tammy Faye’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Fundamentalist Christianity appeared to be on a long, slow decline in the United States. Atheism, Islam and liberalism: This is what we are really fighting about 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z His studies lead him through ancient polemics in which Jewish scholars tried to discredit Christianity by exposing its historical and theological inconsistencies. In the novel ‘Judas,’ Amos Oz wrestles with Jewish attitudes toward Jesus 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z A rare discovery of 81 Anglo-Saxon coffins made from the hollowed-out trunks of oak trees may provide new insights into how people lived in the early days of Christianity in Britain, archaeologists said on Wednesday. Anglo-Saxon coffins found in England may shed light on early Christians 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z “And since Jerusalem is a city of three religions — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — we decided to bring Buddhism into the conversation.” Cy Twombly Works Donated to Tate Modern 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z My souvenir wooden Easter egg has many meanings written atop it — paganism, Christianity, and most of all, contradiction. Raccoons, rabbits and Sean Spicer: The camp and contradictions of the White House Easter Egg Roll 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Arguments like these have been fracturing Christianity since the days of the Roman Empire, and are unlikely to be settled before the next election cycle. Why does the left wing ignore atheists? 2012-08-08T13:36:00Z It might be easier to step away and casually come back with other kinds of Christianity. "They cannot survive without fear": A heretic on leaving the evangelical church 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z He organized a 1986 summit in Assisi, Italy where representatives of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism pledged to protect the environment. Religious leaders recall Prince Philip’s spiritual curiosity 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z We're making jokes about Christianity and then also, so is a Muslim and I think it helps kind of normalize. Muslim-American comics after 9/11: "I thought comedy was over, but it was more important than ever" 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z No, it's not former archbishop George Carey complaining again about Christianity being marginalised in modern Britain. A fetish for the Bible 2010-12-20T21:30:03Z After the release of his final album, “Anything You Sow,” in 1985, Mr. Onyeabor abruptly turned away from music to devote himself to other businesses and to Christianity. William Onyeabor, Reclusive African Electro-Funk Pioneer, Dies at 70 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z When she was a child, her prayers for her father’s return to orthodox Christianity persuaded him to do so. The Book of Mormon’s foggy origins 2012-08-12T16:01:00Z Khosrou lives in Oklahoma, having fled Iran with his sister and his mother, whom the secret police threatened for practicing Christianity. From Iran to America, One Epic Tale at a Time 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z “Christianity lied to me as an Irish person,” she says. Sinead O’Connor is still in one piece 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z At the time, Christianity was banned in Japan, and those who practised the faith were tortured and executed. Martin Scorsese’s Silence to premiere at the Vatican 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z “What is going on with tolerance for other faiths but not for Christianity in the marketplace?” Ralph Reed: Oppressing evangelical Christians is “the last acceptable form of bigotry” 2014-03-19T16:40:00Z His father, in order to keep his job as a lawyer in the Rhineland under Prussian rule, converted to Christianity. Karl Marx: Prophet of the Present 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z There is a strong current of fundamentalist Christianity within baseball, which could make life uncomfortable for openly gay players. How much longer will major league baseball stay in the closet? 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z From the beginning, Christianity “was grounded in a deeply personal emphasis on the broken self, and a corresponding reliance on an external divinity to provide salvation.” ‘Born Bad’: How the idea that we’re all sinners has shaped Western culture 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z He began to read religious skeptics: Thomas Paine, Edward Gibbons —those men challenged Christianity. Abraham Lincoln, bare-knuckle brawler? 2012-12-12T22:26:00Z This is certainly true, yet are these virtues and ideals restricted to Christianity? ‘The Fellowship’ explores the spiritual roots of Tolkien and the Inklings 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z These women were likely practitioners of hoodoo, sometimes called rootwork, a set of black folk traditions developed by enslaved West African people in America, which combined elements of vodou and Yoruba with Christianity. Playing Hoodoo: Renée Stout and “The Rootworker’s Table” 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Falwell told Time magazine in 2005 that the impact of “Left Behind” on Christianity was “probably greater than that of any other book in modern times, outside the Bible.” Tim LaHaye, evangelical author of ‘Left Behind’ book series, dies at 90 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z A history of Christianity is largely a history of the abuse of Jesus Christ’s teachings; Buddhism is not exempt from such misprision. Meditation for Strivers 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z True, there are multiple forms of any tradition, be it secular or religious: it is never possible to speak of an “essential” Christianity or Islam. The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About 'Fields of Blood' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z On a “spiritual quest,” toward the end of his life, he found only a handful of banalities—a version of early Christianity, nothing more. The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z If a former believer says that Christianity made him depressed, obsessive, or post-traumatic, he is likely to be dismissed as an exaggerator. The crazy-making in Christianity: Religion’s cycle of self-doubt and self-punishment 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z You start with talking about doubt, which I think a lot of people on the other side of the conversation about Christianity don't think is part of the discussion about faith. "I don't toot glitter": Kristin Chenoweth on embracing her failure, anger and questions for God 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z It's about two Portuguese Jesuit missionaries traveling to 17th-century Japan to spread Christianity and find their missing mentor. Scorsese's 'Silence' to get Oscar-qualifying release Dec. 23 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z She said she would be happy to take the Bible too because her grandfather had converted to Christianity and she often read him passages when he started losing his sight. Aung San Suu Kyi picks Beatles and Tom Jones on Desert Island Discs 2013-01-27T14:12:00Z His mother died as he turned 12, an event which left the seven Housman children in the care of their genial but madcap father, and which would gradually lead Housman to reject Christianity. A Worcestershire lad 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Anybody who studies Blair is forced to the conclusion that what is really at the core of him is Christianity. Peter Wilby: 'Anybody who studies Blair is forced to the conclusion that what is really at the core of him is Christianity' 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Evangelical Christians assume, rather presumptuously, that the natural choice is Christianity. The Fantasy of the Deathbed Conversion 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z It refers to Paige and Henry: unlike their parents, they are “real” Americans, hooked on Christianity and video games, respectively. The Cruel Irony of “The Americans” 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z While Christianity is on a decline in the United States, at Mosaic and other churches like it in the Los Angeles area, the religion is thriving. Los Angeles Churches Make Worship...Hip? 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Here the physical and spiritual contrasts between Islam and Christianity are embedded in the walls. The Enduring Echoes of Moorish Spain 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z It is crazy to think Christianity can be understood from within or without, separated from its Jewish roots. New light on Christianity's Jewish roots 2011-04-05T15:06:50Z William Blake, who wrote the poem later set to music by Sir Hubert Parry, had a distinctly unorthodox take on Christianity. Should Jerusalem be sung here? 2010-07-15T15:04:00Z Whatever the attempts to dress them in the garb of youth culture, many of Christianity's most controversial doctrines are given a full airing at the camps. Christian teen camps are wicked, innit 2011-08-10T18:14:02Z You're not supposed to hear about that because of the defining voice of Christianity in America, despite evidence to the contrary, are people like Mike Pence. Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z “This Is My God” featured a similar approach to “Mere Christianity” and other works by C.S. Herman Wouk, a consummate writer until the end, dies at 103 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Many of the modern-day practices of Halloween and even its name were influenced by Christianity. Tricking and treating’s long history 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z And then from Believers Monthly and Christianity Today and the Mid- Atlantic Council of Mediums and Ghost Hunters LLC, most of them highly displeased. 'Goodbye for Now': Laurie Frankel's novel of love, grief and digital resurrection 2012-08-02T20:09:06Z His Othello is explicitly a convert to Christianity and is clearly influenced by Mr. Oyelowo’s own experience of marriage and what he might feel if that marriage were compromised. For David Oyelowo, the Time Has Come to Play Othello 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The long, tumultuous history of Christianity reels by like a silly cartoon in “The Cardinals,” an uninspired and interminable show being presented as part of the Under the Radar festival. ‘The Cardinals’ at the Public Theater 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Christianity, Islam and Judaism are all considered Abrahamic religions that view Abraham, a prophet, as the patriarch of their faith. A rabbi decided to sponsor an Afghan refugee family. When he needed a hand, he brought in a mosque and a church. 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z At first, it’s unclear what this has to do with born-again paganism; only after many pages does Kronman argue that the Abrahamic religions, especially Christianity, make it hard to be grateful enough for life. The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The questions Pearson battled were not exactly new in Christianity, and neither were the answers he arrived at. Come Sunday: how one of America's biggest preachers became a pariah 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Which is why those who want a sharp distinction between Christianity and humanism just don't understand basic orthodox Christianity. The week ahead: Giles Fraser's guide to midnight mass – and Doctor Who 2012-12-23T22:01:01Z Blood, is it your ethnic origins, or is Christianity something more transcendent than that? Have Photo Albums, Will Travel 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The real religion in America is not Christianity. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z In past centuries religions could capture mindshare through conquest, which is how Christianity spread through Europe and how Islam spread through India. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z As a consequence, literature and Christianity have made strange bedfellows. Where did all the Christian writers go? 2010-03-31T10:11:00Z Given the history of Christianity, this is not inexplicable at all," Rice wrote, pointing to Gandhi's statement: "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Anne Rice 'quits being a Christian' 2010-07-30T13:23:00Z Any page might offer a bastardized phrase from Genesis, Shakespeare and Matthew Arnold, while criticizing Christianity, condemning American capitalism and warning of the climate apocalypse. Review | Lawrence Ferlinghetti is about to turn 100, and he hasn’t mellowed. At all. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Searching for salvation, he visits the Peace Baptist Church, whose preacher urges him to embrace evangelical Christianity. ‘Memphis,’ From Tim Sutton, Mixes Music and Mysticism 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z She admits to us that a person of faith has doubts, carries anger and sometimes cannot reconcile, or carte blanche accept, certain aspects of Christianity. Review | Rachel Held Evans died at 37, but a beautiful new book captures her brave outlook 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z In other words, even as European countries claim to be secular, Christianity still underpins our culture. Europe is not a secular paradise — and Americans should be careful when embracing this myth 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z To the contrary, among the issues we will encounter in this series is Christianity’s tendency to take down its faith counterparts. Imprinted by Belief 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Topics: patrick henry college, god's harvard, , , Evangelical Christianity, , , , Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va. Rape culture and evangelical culture collide at “God’s Harvard” 2014-02-18T21:03:00Z As this docuseries asserts early in the first episode, a key teaching of both mainstream Christianity and Heaven's Gate was that growing in one's spirituality hinges on shedding one's worldliness. New "Heaven's Gate" series looks to Christianity to explain the method to the cult's madness 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Cave’s onetime heroin addiction is mentioned but only in the context of Christianity, with which Mr. Cave, when asked about religion, says he flirted with during that period. In ‘20,000 Days on Earth,’ Nick Cave Is on the Move 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z I used to go to a group called Christianity Explored. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z In my experience, sex work and Christianity were not incongruous. ‘How Much of My Story Am I Supposed to Share?’ 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z In haste do not compare the fictional world of lost to the fictional world of Christianity. 2010-01-22T17:28:00Z With the advent of Judaism and Christianity, sex became a group concern, and there was very little difference between body and spirit. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z These books reflect what may be a critical pivot point in the direction of white Christianity in the United States. Is the White Church Inherently Racist? 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z He continues, “What they will be and do then depends largely upon what our American Protestant Christianity does for them now.” Four Not-to-Miss Photography Shows 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Werfel, a German-speaking Jewish convert to Christianity, wrote the book to inform readers about the suffering of the Armenian people and also as a warning to the German people of the dangers of racial intolerance. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z They will say that the wounded former believer was prone to anxiety or depression or obsession in the first place — that his Christianity somehow got corrupted by his predisposition to psychological problems. The crazy-making in Christianity: Religion’s cycle of self-doubt and self-punishment 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Some 40 years after Robin Hardy's movie explored a clash between Christianity and paganism, the residents of Plockton, where some scenes were shot, are engaged in a real life religious struggle. Wicker Man villagers fight to save their only church from developers 2013-02-26T18:23:24Z He remained a staunch unbeliever and was genuinely distressed, he once told me, when Malcolm Muggeridge, who had been a star performer for Granada, embarked on his public conversion to Christianity. Sir Denis Forman obituary 2013-02-25T13:46:32Z According to my father, “the primary example of suffering Christianity in this country was the experience of African-American slaves.” My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z But it is only later, when she joins a tightly knit, ecstatic band of worshipers, that Christianity becomes a significant force in Corinne’s life. | 'Higher Ground': ?Higher Ground,? Directed by and Starring Vera Farmiga 2011-08-25T22:13:02Z Miles's investigations began with Constantine, the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, who sent his ancient mum, Empress Helena, to the Holy Land to find conclusive proof of the New Testament story. Archaeology: A Secret History; Alex Polizzi: The Fizer Returns – TV review 2013-05-01T06:00:13Z On the Asian side of the equation, Lee Yong-ju’s “Possessed” is a standard Korean horror film with one twist: fervent Christianity figures in the story about a girl’s disappearance. Film: The Tribeca Film Festival?s Cinemania Series Has Dark Treasures 2010-04-22T22:56:00Z He vowed to kick his addictions and renewed his faith in Christianity. Dan Peek obituary 2011-07-26T18:54:40Z Yet the values of Christianity — of humility, love and compassion — remain there in the mix as well. The evangelical purity trap for women: “A lamb outside of your marriage bed and a tiger in it” 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The typical history of Christianity will tell you that this passage has been influential in certain monastic communities but scarcely anywhere else. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Many non-Christians put up trees now, so “at some point, the symbol doesn’t just belong to Christianity anymore.” A guide to the secret meaning of holiday symbols 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Thomas Hastings, the executive director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center in New Haven, Conn., said, “They did their own version of Christianity, to put it simply.” Searching for a Jesus Who Looks More Like Me 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z “Holding her torch to proclaim that mankind receives true light, not from Christ and Christianity, but from heathenism and its gods.” Perspective | Maybe it’s time to admit that the Statue of Liberty has never quite measured up 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z “Treating religion and Christianity with respect is very important to everyone involved,” she said. Robert Harling, Screenwriter, Returns With ?GCB? on ABC 2012-02-29T22:54:28Z Farro suggests Williams has undergone a spiritual drift away from Christianity. Ex-Paramore members slam Hayley Williams 2010-12-23T11:12:13Z Conrad had a very naive idea that colonisation was bringing modernity, Christianity and commerce to this barbarous people. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z “At the time I didn’t know much about Christianity and the church. But as a professor, I studied saints and the history of the church and this got me closer to it again.” The Vatican editor who exposed the sexual abuse of nuns – and took on the Pope 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Hawke grew up in a “kaleidoscope” of Christianity; his Episcopalian parents divorced and married Christians in very different denominations. Nearing 50, Ethan Hawke’s latest radical transformation — violent abolitionist John Brown — suits an explorer of ‘intense faith’ 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z He and his wife converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and, with several other families, opened their own Orthodox mission church near St. Francisville. Conservative author Rod Dreher’s paradox: Compassion in St. Francisville and cruelty in America 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Williamson has been sermonizing about an “awakening” for many years — a concept reminiscent of evangelical Christianity’s “Great Awakenings” that have shifted America’s cultural and political landscapes over its history. America's curious political awakening to Marianne Williamson 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z She converted to Christianity in the mid-nineties, and became a Catholic in 1998 – a move that required an image change. The ever-changing ideologies of Jane Roe 2013-01-03T16:29:00Z And why, if Drayton is Krstic, did he pledge money to a museum that celebrates Muslim-ruled medieval Spain, a golden age that embraced Islam, Judaism and Christianity in the name of art and knowledge? Ausma Zehanat Khan’s crime novel ‘The Unquiet Dead’ delves into sensitive terrain 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Billington brought the same sort of zeal to philosophy that he had earlier devoted to Christianity, and then to rejecting it. Ray Billington obituary 2012-09-28T10:06:57Z Catholic Christianity has a long tradition of being shaped from the margins, starting with its founder. Pope Francis doesn’t represent all Catholics 2013-03-21T14:49:00Z He too aimed to use the power of science to achieve the impossible – a materialist version of the earthly paradise promised in early Christianity. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z A Broadway musical about America's favorite homegrown brand of Christianity from the genius misfits of "South Park" and "Team America," and Robert Lopez, the raunchy composer of "Avenue Q," could be expected to be irreverent. 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z ON his blog “Words of Wrath,” Wrath James White is an outspoken critic of Christianity and of African-Americans’ “zealous embracement of the God of our kidnapper, murders, slave masters and oppressors.” African-American Atheists 2011-11-25T23:54:27Z Her commitment to Christianity and rightwing politics – surprising, you might think, for such a censor-baiting figure – helped push her away from Hollywood. Jane Russell: a life in clips 2011-03-01T14:17:00Z She swiftly clarified that “I actually support funding for teaching the fundamentals of America’s Founding Fathers’ religion, which is Christianity, in public schools or private schools.” Forget the theocracy, North Carolina 2013-04-03T19:57:00Z “They mock Christianity. We are the party of the working class.” A Black Republican tries to bring in Black voters to the GOP 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z It was a tacky little box, but she had said many times that she thought the pope embodied the heart of Christianity. Ailing, alone and 89. So how could Hilda Reynolds be joyous? 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Separated from his mother, who was imprisoned for refusing to accept British sovereignty, he converted to Christianity and was brought to England, where he became a favorite of Victoria’s. Troubled Jewel in the Crown 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Here, when the island converted to Christianity around the year 1000, Iceland’s leader is said to have thrown all his pagan idols into the churning pool created by the semi-circular drop of the Skjalfandafljot river. Driving Iceland’s Overlooked North 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Bucking convention, this exhibition focuses on Christianity in Poussin’s art. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Throughout the book, you identify these concepts that are almost mythic about Florida — hurricanes, crocodiles, the Confederacy, Christianity. "Florida hasn't always been the weird state": Florida Man pens book reframing the Sunshine State 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Imposing such a definition of sin on human beings is one of the biggest hammers in the ideological toolbox of empire that Christianity was born to dismantle. How LGBTQ love saves Christianity: A priest explains 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Souling, a longstanding tradition with links to Christianity rather than paganism, is comparable to trick-or-treating in that it involved going from door-to-door to beg for "soul cakes". Halloween foods from history reveal the holiday’s surprising romantic side — and you can try them yo 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z A soppy, solipsistic and juvenile declaration and cop-out bordering on the delusional and contradicting Christianity and Islam, neither of which recognize the other, and both of which espouse universalist pretensions. 15 ways atheists can stand up for rationality 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Orthodox Christianity is an essential part of being Georgian. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z It's no accident that evangelical Christianity is as popular as it is. Q&A: Going Undercover Amongst Evangelicals 2010-04-05T08:15:00Z Neil, casting himself as disciple, scours the notebooks and discovers that his instructor’s scholarly interests centered around Julian the Apostate — Roman emperor, soldier, scholar and denouncer of Christianity. In Julian Barnes’s New Novel, a Teacher’s Pet Becomes Obsessed 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z I was raised in a Jewish family and started practicing Christianity. Date Lab: They talked religion — and it wasn’t awkward 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z “Yemen was a cradle to many civilizations and a home to multiple faiths, particularly Judaism, Christianity and Islam, which all thrived here,” Yemen’s culture minister, Marwan Dammaj, said in New York on Wednesday. Yemen Asks U.S. for Help to Curb Smuggling of Looted Ancient Artifacts 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The very subject of Parker’s film is the deployment of Christianity, and of one particular preacher, to keep captive Africans enslaved and submissive in the pre-Civil War American South. The Cinematic Merits and Flaws of Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z There is nothing unusual with a religious organization making employees sign a statement of faith or requiring them to practice certain behavior that fits with the teachings of historic Christianity. How the American Bible Society became evangelical 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z But his tweedy intellectualism and distinctive brand of muscular, man-up Christianity also draw stars of pop music, film and sports to East New York. The Power Pastor: How A.R. Bernard Built a New York Megachurch 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z And once Christianity became championed by Rome, one of the most militaristic civilizations the world has known, philosophical discussions on the nature of good and evil became martial instructions for purges and pugilism. How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Both Buddhism and Christianity envision an afterlife, with pleasant and unpleasant possibilities. At These Exhibitions, Death Is a Lively Subject 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z In the early seventh century Christian evangelists tried to win over Buddhists with the case that not only was Christianity compatible with Buddhism, “it was Buddhism.” Brilliant threads 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Stapp talks about his rededication to Christianity and mentions his children, saying they are being "embarrassed and humiliated" by people who are "not their father." Scott Stapp of Creed claims to be broke, under 'attack'; posts video 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Jefferson saw himself as part of a dignified and righteous endeavor—a cadre of scholarly men working to remove the layers of mythology and superstition that congealed during the first and second centuries of Christianity. Thomas Jefferson vs. the Bible: What America’s founding father really thought about religion 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Unlike today’s so-called War on Christmas — which the AFA claims has been ongoing for nearly the past decade — this war lasted for nearly 200 years, and was waged by Christians in the name of Christianity. Actually, the right invented the “War on Christmas”: The real history behind today’s phoniest persecution 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z At the time evangelical Protestant flower children, often loosely grouped together as the “Jesus Movement,” were embracing a dressed-down, scruffier, joyous and sometimes clowning Christianity. Broadway Revival of ?Godspell? 2011-11-04T14:59:10Z An early scene shows his baptism into born-again Christianity, and we listen in on his earnest conversations with a church deacon. | 'Small Town Murder Songs': Violence Close at Hand Shakes a Bucolic Setting 2011-06-30T22:03:06Z Q: You cite the Christian doctrine of forgiveness as one reason that Christianity has achieved enduring success. Is civilization good? Author Jared Diamond investigates 2012-12-29T03:08:49Z The story of Parsifal is a complicated mixture of pagan mysticism, Christianity and Buddhism, and the Geneva production seeks to break it down to the basics. Geneva's 'Parsifal' ends in embrace 2010-03-19T15:20:00Z A Star Is Born could bank on Lady Gaga speaking her mind at regular intervals – condemning Mike Pence and his wife as “the worst representation” of Christianity, for instance. No such thing as bad publicity: five ways to win an Oscar in 2019 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Growing up, Amba was intensely drawn to religion, but the absolutism of Christianity turned her off. For the Saxophonist Zoh Amba, Free Jazz Is Gospel 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z But then there’s a lot of things about, say, Christianity, that I think many Christians, if pressed, would probably conclude were more resonant as metaphor than reality, like the virgin birth. Alex Gibney interview: journey into the seductive world of Scientology 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z It’s not easy to make all these projected selves cohere: My friends and family include folks from Southern evangelical Christianity, from the rap/rock critic subculture, from ’90s bohemia, from mommy-land, from the public-education universe. My breakup with Facebook 2013-01-12T00:30:00Z Catholicism and Spanish are gone, replaced by evangelical Christianity and Portuguese. ‘Embrace of the Serpent,’ Ciro Guerra’s Searching Tale About Invaded Amazon Cultures 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Patrick White Nothing has had more influence on western literature in the past thousand years than Christianity. Where did all the Christian writers go? 2010-03-31T10:11:00Z In each gram is up to one billion viral particles; yet somehow, Christianity shunned water-based rituals for centuries. Review: ‘Pandemic’ Explains How to Host the Perfect Pathogen Party 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z “In fact, what happened in the aftermath — which is essentially the beginning of Christianity — is utterly fascinating.” ‘The Bible,’ a Hit on Cable, Will Have Its Sequel on NBC 2013-07-01T18:04:41Z He left the Catholic Church, but Christianity continued to resonate. Tom Bissell's 'Apostle' takes a ride-along through unanswerable questions about Jesus' disciples 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Farah, who embraced Christianity two years ago, said obtaining the certificate includes traditions that contradict her faith. Christians want marriages recognized in Morocco 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Conservatives have been trying to weasel God into the government for, oh, ever, and the tension between Christianity and American politics in recent years has made for some frequently absurd moments. Forget the theocracy, North Carolina 2013-04-03T19:57:00Z A similar complexity appears in the history of early Christianity in how religion functioned, both in terms of rituals and in the use of the Latin term it derives from. From Biden’s giant Bible to Christian flags waved by rioters, "religion" means many different things 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Christianity was founded on oaths and covenants – as was the whole dispensation of feudal society. Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr – review 2013-05-23T06:30:19Z He decided he would convert from Islam to Christianity. Homosexuality, God and ISIS: The secret life of a lonely gay Christian in Yemen 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The capital, where both Orthodox Christianity and Islam are practiced, is an extraordinary, fascinating and sometimes heartbreaking city. Navigating Sometimes Chaotic, Always Fascinating Addis Ababa 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Jones sets out to prove that “American Christianity’s theological core has been thoroughly structured by an interest in protecting white supremacy.” Is the White Church Inherently Racist? 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z In Christianity, violets represent the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, who has welcomed my uncle home. A Mother’s Day scream into the void 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z That is what makes Christianity what it is. Fox News' Lauren Green: Christmas hymns are important for three key reasons 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z As in the Lost Cause of the South and the reunion narrative of the whole nation, white Christianity of midcentury America chose the comforting elements of history and theology rather than the uncomfortable ones. The South’s Fight for White Supremacy 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z “While ‘The Bright Ages’ challenges some racist and fascist notions,” she wrote, “Europe, Christianity, and whiteness remain central themes,” while the authors “rely on their whiteness for authority.” Medieval Scholars Spar on a Modern Battlefield: Twitter 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z It is hard to see “the great affair” as anything other than the status of Christianity among the religions of the world. The Modern Monkhood of Thomas Merton 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Even their religious backgrounds are sharply at odds: Perry was raised as a Methodist and forged deep ties to evangelical Christianity, some of whose adherents remain suspicious of the Mormon faith that Romney embraces. GOP race could become Perry vs. Romney 2011-08-13T00:09:00Z Things took a further turn with the rise of Christianity. Disney Pixar’s Soul: how the moviemakers took Plato’s view of existence and added a modern twist 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z A critical pivot in their version presents “Treemonisha” as the tale of a fractured community of former slaves, half of whom stayed after the abolition of slavery and turned to the land and their Christianity. Can a 108-year-old opera — by Scott Joplin — be made to sing for today? 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z By the time Lewis and Eliot converted to the faith in the late 1920s, Christianity was a bête noire of the literary world. Where did all the Christian writers go? 2010-03-31T10:11:00Z In Christianity, patron saints are exemplars or martyrs who serve as role models and heavenly advocates. The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z His thoughts on Christianity are also worth paying attention to, whether you are religious or not. Diary of a Man in Despair by Friedrich Reck – review 2013-03-26T15:23:23Z The pope made his remarks in the homily of a Mass where he beatified 124 Korean martyrs who were killed for refusing to renounce Christianity in the 18th and 19th centuries. Pope Francis denounces wealth gap in open-air Seoul mass 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Watch if you like “everybody has a secret” ensemble shows, stories about modern American Christianity and unusual workplace settings. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Greenleaf’ and ‘Thirteen’ 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z But their approach was not really unprecedented–compared, for instance, the response of medieval Christianity to its own Sudden Departure, the Black Plague. Review: The Leftovers Season Finale: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Each coin is inscribed with part of the Lord’s Prayer — “Give us this day our daily bread” — but Borger said the program doesn’t promote Christianity or try to convert participants. ‘Breadcoin’ is a new currency in D.C. for people in need 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z It's a frank exploration of one individual's journey to authenticity, and a hopeful case for a kinder version of Christianity. "As a Woman" author Paula Stone Williams: I was "unaware of my male privilege" until transition 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z While the language is different, communicating with spirits on the so-called other side is also an accepted practice in Christianity. Psychic Mediums Are the New Wellness Coaches 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Both had youthful phases of devout Christianity: Cruise planned to be a Catholic priest, and Hanks has said that he was a “Bible-toting evangelical”. Cruise and Hanks: from golden boys to wasted talents 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Some of the books on the debut list will be published in collaboration with Christianity Today, which bills itself as a global media ministry. ArtsBeat: Amazon Publishing Starts a Christian Imprint 2014-01-23T19:17:02Z Expanded from his Gifford lectures, it is, as one might expect of the author of A History of Christianity and Reformation, intellectually robust, and without the prevarications and self-qualifications that sometimes stymie academic prose. Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch – review 2013-03-29T08:01:01Z “This is the cradle of Judaism and Christianity,” Mr. Gil says of the area. Jaffa Is Tel Aviv’s Unexpected Luxury Hotspot 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Christianity in Cyprus stretches to the faith's earliest years. Cyprus Church thanks Boy George for icon's return 2011-01-20T16:37:07Z Think about the language of someone who loves Christianity — white fundamentalist Christianity, I want to make that clear. Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Ignoring almost entirely the progressive sects within American Christianity, Garriga focuses on white male conservatives' reclamation of masculinity as a reason to go to church. 'American Jesus' a superficial look at Protestant subcultures in U.S. 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The film, Silence, is adapted from the 1966 Shusako Endo novel of the same name, and concerns a pair of priests who become persecuted after trying to bring Christianity to Japan in the 17th century. Martin Scorsese's Silence lined up for Oscars... in 2016 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z When the task had been completed, the pope reportedly crowed, “The thing that was pagan is now the emblem of Christianity.” Books of The Times: ?Rome,? a Personal History by Robert Hughes - Review 2011-11-21T23:26:49Z Tavener’s later, better-known works flowed from his conversion to Orthodox Christianity and his collaboration with Mother Thekla, a Russian emigre and Orthodox nun to whom he turned for support after his mother died in 1985. John Tavener, Composer and Seeker, Dies at 69 2013-11-12T18:20:35Z With this in mind, comparing Bitcoin to a tradition like Christianity may cause people to notice things that they didn't before. Why are people calling Bitcoin a religion? 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z The Victorian era was a devout age, and Evangelical Christianity was pervasive by the 1830s. The bizarre social history of beds 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Developed during slavery in Baptist and Methodist sects that frowned upon dancing and drums, the ring shout is a sneaky way of retaining both in church, and of blending African spirituality with Christianity. Review: ‘Run Mary Run’ Features Rashida Bumbray at SummerStage 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The rise of Christianity was the unifying factor that laid the foundation of Russian culture. Review: The Foundations of Russian Culture and Art 2010-03-05T14:00:00Z But if recent advances in queer rights and marriage equality are any indicator, the general public is finding conservative Christianity’s obsession with traditional patriarchal privilege and sexual entitlement increasingly wearisome and offensive. “11-year-olds shouldn’t get IUDs!”: Fox News creates mythical preteen IUD seeker, ignoring the success of school-based reproductive healthcare clinics 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Armenia was the first nation to adopt Christianity as a state religion, and churches abound. What a Trip: Georgian wine and the spirit of love on a vacation to the Caucasus 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Thinkers such as Voltaire in 18th-century France were questioning Christianity itself and celebrating earthly life. Frieze, funfair photography and Haiti's story – the week in art 2012-10-12T11:27:31Z In the 1600s of the earlier film, older customs and beliefs had been pushed into the margins by Christianity, but in this version of early medieval Northern Europe, that relationship is reversed. ‘The Northman’ Review: Danish Premodern 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z He pushed its heresies so far they arrived at Christianity, complete with a Trinitarian God and a cult of the Cross. Savior? Monster? A Messianic Leader Rallies His Followers. 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z But the artist, who remains fiercely devoted to the Baltimore neighborhood where she grew up, refers just as often to Christianity. Inspired by Harriet Tubman, an Artist Takes Glass to Extremes 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The writer was also a respected Oxford scholar and literary critic, while his book Mere Christianity was adapted from a series of BBC radio broadcasts, which sought to explain Christian teachings to a wider audience. Poets' Corner honour for CS Lewis 2013-11-22T15:58:44Z “My grandfather’s grandfather was Jewish and converted to Christianity because to be a Jew was difficult at the time in Barletta,” he said. Music From the Death Camps: Alive and Being Readied for a New Home 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z And that, in a bit of dialogue near the end, offers an almost explicit denunciation of Christianity. ‘Wolfwalkers’ Review: From Ireland, Lupine Lore in Cartoon Style 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z |
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