If you’ve ever decorated a Christmas tree and thought, “This feels a little too magical to be strictly Christian,” ...

“Dog of God,” Latvia’s second-in-a-row animated Oscar contender after the winning phenomenon “Flow,” continues to bark out ...

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

On a business trip to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in the late 1990s, two colleagues and I left work after our day’s last meeting and ...

Together, one of the most prolific running back tandems in the state led the Maui Warriors to a 37-18 win over sister school ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

One does not need to be a scholar to know that the religious landscape of the United States has drastically changed over the ...

Scholars reveal that much of what we think we know about Vikings and Norse mythology is based on later reinterpretations rather than original sources.

As autumn proves and Robert Frost reminds us, “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” In October, daylight wanes, fields empty and much of the Northern Hemisphere turns itself towards full blown memento mori. All of ...

Over the past two centuries, Europe has become increasingly secular. Scholars in fact no longer talk of the Christian West when they speak of Modern Europe and North America, but of the Secular West.

The Plague of Justinian that killed many millions of people in the Near East and Europe, first appeared in Egypt, before spreading throughout the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire. Yersinia pestis, ...