Are we actually approaching a religious revival in the US? Catholic sociologist Christian Smith has a demoralizing but direct answer: No.

Apocrypha’ means ‘hidden’ in Greek, but it is often used to describe texts that are outside the official biblical canon.

In 1204 the soldiers who had set out to retake Jerusalem in the Fourth Crusade changed course—but why? The result would change medieval Europe forever.

In our roundup of travel stories this week: a man recreates his father’s round-the-world bicycle trip, a luxury yacht that turned out to be a mold-covered wreck, plus the ancient Roman city 10 times ...

Prince Vladimir’s adoption of the Orthodox Christian religion strategically aligned the Slavic world and the Kievan Rus with ...