There are 66 books in the modern Bible, across the Old and New Testaments, but over 70 writings were never accepted. These ...

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Third Wayism makes the same fundamental error as applied to the cultural and political divide in America. It wants the comfort of the Gospel without the confrontation of God’s law. It wants to affirm ...

(RNS) — Mandaeans, who believe they are descendants of the disciples of John the Baptist, have scattered around the globe, fleeing war and persecution in the Middle East. (RNS) — As the morning sun of ...

A few years ago, I came across a treasure trove of ancient information found in a sealed jar in 1945 near the town of Nag Hammadi about 75-80 miles north of Luxor on the banks of the River Nile in ...

Bentley Layton, the pre-eminent scholar of his generation of the late ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, died on March 26 at his home in New Haven from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.

Having written the acclaimed A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, and in 2009 presented the BBC television series based on it, Diarmaid MacCulloch has now turned his attention to ...

The Gospel of Barnabas is a book written in the style of the Gospels but fundamentally undermines many of Christianity’s key points. It is known as one of the “lost books of the Bible” despite its ...

The Gnostic gospels are attributed to the work of a community known as the “Gnostics,” which existed in the early Church. (Gnosis in Greek means “knowledge.”) However, before addressing the issue of ...