Every day, more Christians are being arrested. Every day, more Christians are being taken to secret prisons and concentration camps. Every day, more Christians are being tortured and every day more Christians are being killed for what they believe.
Maybe it is time to lower the walls of our ideological purity, drop the intellectual piety and pick our battles more carefully.
Placing angels on our tree might seem an odd tradition given this complex history. Yet perhaps that complexity is itself the point.
Early traditions of Advent focused on more than the manger.
A brief mention in one gospel spawned some of the most iconic Christmas imagery.
For centuries, Christians barely took notice of Jesus’ birth.
How a fabricated ‘hate crime’ led to a very real one.
Violence towards Christians is escalating. It’s not only in Europe and not only physical assaults.
An ancient Babylonian tablet describes an ark – but it’s not what Creationists claim it is.
Things worked well for a week, but the weights tied to the body failed to keep him submerged and when he floated to the top of the water, the brutality of the Polish People’s Republic was exposed.
