Is it a sin to celebrate Halloween? The name means the eve of the holy ones, the pagan story is thinner than you have heard, and Paul gives a surprising answer.
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Who Was Barabbas? In Some Ancient Copies of Matthew, His Name Is Jesus
Who was Barabbas? A rebel charged with murder, freed instead of Jesus. In some ancient copies of Matthew his first name is Jesus too. Here is what we know.
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Who Was Mary Magdalene? The Bible Never Calls Her a Prostitute
Who was Mary Magdalene? The Bible never calls her a prostitute – a sermon in 591 did. The Gospels record a healed woman who funded Jesus and saw him first.
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The Devil’s Arrows Were Hauled 18 km on Purpose. Nobody Remembers Why.
The Devil’s Arrows were hauled 18 km on purpose around 4,000 years ago. Science now knows where the stones came from. The reason was lost, so a legend moved in.
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The Oldest Dress in the World Still Has Creases in It
The oldest dress in the world is over 5,000 years old, and the creases at its elbows prove that somebody really wore it. The rest of the story is stranger.
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Who Were the Samaritans? The Relatives Nobody Claimed
Who were the Samaritans? Not foreigners, but the estranged half of Israel’s own family — which is exactly why Jesus kept choosing them, and why it stung.
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Nimrud’s Lower City: 340 Hectares Nobody Dug for 180 Years
For 180 years archaeologists dug Nimrud’s palaces and left the Nimrud lower city unmapped. A 2025 survey finally walked all 340 hectares. Here is what it found.
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What Does Gospel Mean? It Was Caesar’s Word First
What does gospel mean? Long before the church owned it, euangelion was Rome’s word for announcing that a battle was won and a new emperor had the throne.
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What Did Jesus Look Like? The Gospels Never Say
What did Jesus look like? No Gospel describes his face, and the oldest surviving argument about it came from a critic – who the Christians half agreed with.
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80,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Smaller Than a Thumbnail
80,000-year-old arrowheads from a cave in Uzbekistan are barely 2cm wide, and they sat in already-excavated material, unnoticed, because they were broken.