Since I’m a historian (sort of), sometimes people like to ask me if certain historical figures would have been like today’s Republicans or Democrats.  When Charlemagne ordered fewer

I’ve been working on my first graduate degree for a few years, and I’ve had the luxury (due to the cross-disciplinary nature of my degree) to be a

In an interesting announcement, Guy Consolmagno, the Pope’s Astronomer, has said that he would be happy to baptize an alien.  He adds the stipulation that he would only

Since I’m in the middle of the busiest month of my life, to date, I haven’t got the time to do an in-depth and critical analysis of some

Jon Foreman, lead singer of Switchfoot, is not the type to get in trouble with the law, but a recent run-in with the police has really affected him.

National Geographic recently posted an article titled, Dead Sea Scrolls Mystery Solved? Not because they had any answers, but because it’s really good headline. The mystery of the

If you’re going to make an argument, no matter what it is, you’d better argue well.  The protestor above is responding to some pretty weak arguments from Christians

The media thinks that child molestation in the church is a new problem – it isn’t.  This horrible crime has been going on for a very long time

In late antiquity, the nation of Rome knew economic depression.  The gory days of Julius Caesar were over and the population was dwindling – taking the economy with

Jonathan Acuff (whose hilarious and insightful work can be found at the Stuff Christians Like website) has written something useful over at CNN’s religion blog that explains why