An early Christian hymn pulled out of an ancient Egyptian rubbish heap at the end of the First World War has recently been revived as a hymn sung by Christians around the world. The hymn, written in about AD 250-80 on a small scrap of papyrus, was one of thousands of discoveries made in the ruins of Oxyrhynchus, an ancient…
In an age of declining religious belief, when more people than ever describe themselves as having no religion, is it still possible to know that there is a God? In a new series of Questions of our Times, five guests explore this question from different perspectives, asking what personal experience, philosophy, the Bible and the […]
According to Richard Dawkins, ‘The only difference between The Da Vinci Code and the gospels is that the gospels are ancient fiction while The Da Vinci Code is modern fiction.’ Is this really the case? One scientific field that can put this claim to the test is archaeology. Gathering together archaeological discoveries including ancient coins, […]
Justin Brierley, whose podcast (and book) charts The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God, met with Tom Holland, the celebrated historian, podcaster and self-described ‘Protestant agnostic’, for a public conversation last month. They spoke in Westminster Chapel before a live audience, and discussed the state of faith today, as well as Holland’s own intellectual and […]
