The 52 texts discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt include 'secret' gospels poems and myths attributing to Jesus sayings and beliefs which are very different from the New Testament. Scholar Elaine Pagels ...

The movie and book are fiction. But anyone who took in The Da Vinci Code in theaters over the weekend might be wondering whether they had fallen asleep in Sunday School. From the big screen, viewers ...

Sixty years ago this December, texts that came to be known as the Nag Hammadi Library were discovered in the Egyptian desert. The leather-bound sheets of papyrus, now housed in a Cairo museum, include ...

Yesterday the world learned of a newly-discovered early Christian text that depicts Jesus as a married man. Jesus’ wife may be big news today, but striking and unusual variations on Christian faith ...

The latest media frenzy over the Gospel of Judas reveals “the [secular] media's profound ignorance of ancient history,” says Brian St. Paul, editor of Crisis Magazine, in his April 13th e-letter to ...

Six decades ago Red Sox ball players Leon Culberson and Skeeter Newsome played a few seasons for the BoSox, mainly during the early war years. Leon did achieve some attention for his Frisbee-type toss ...

Hidden for centuries in the sands of Egypt, the Gnostic Gospels have been seen as dangerous heresy. But were they really outlawed — or simply forgotten?

Wrapped up in "The Da Vinci Code" whirlwind, the world is in an uproar and captivated by the questions the all-time bestselling novel raises regarding Christianity’s most notable and cherished ...

In December 1945 near Nag Hammadi, an Egyptian farmer unearthed an urn containing papyrus books later identified as the Gnostic Gospels. They included the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip and ...