David Mirsch's hypothesis of a clandestine use of drugs to render Jesus comatose on the cross is an ad hoc claim. He offers no supporting data, and the assertion cannot be proven. Beyond that, all ...

The pontiff is set to meet political leaders and say Mass at a Beirut port destroyed by an explosion five years ago. It is ...

Readers respond to a column by David Brooks about Christian nationalism. Also: A hope for a different kind of president; a ...

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...