When it comes to a lot of Christian holidays, it doesn’t take much digging to uncover pretty obvious remnants of the pagan festivals they replaced still lingering in the ways we celebrate today. The ...

Do England’s medieval graffiti drawings reveal a lingering devotion to paganism? As reported by the BBC, the four-year-old Lincolnshire medieval graffiti project has uncovered more than 28,000 ...

As Christians conquered pagan lands, they regularly superimposed Christian symbols on pagan shrines. I thought of this when I read that the buildings of Chicago Theological Seminary have been sold to ...

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Christendom, the generic term for religions professing faith in Jesus Christ, has flourished in the past two millennia. Represented collectively by the iconic Cross, it had also adopted other symbols ...

Michelangelo often surreptitiously inserted pagan symbols into his works of art, many of them possibly associated with anatomical representations. A new analysis suggests that Michelangelo may have ...

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Hot cross buns have long heralded the start of Easter in the western world, with the marked cross on top a symbol of Christian faith. But it hasn't always been this way. The rolls, often filled with ...