One person's good news may be another's lost cause. And that is, literally, the gospel truth. Just ask Elaine Pagels, a champion of lost gospels, as she rides the wake of Mel Gibson's Gospel ...

The Da Vinci Code” book and movie have tapped into and further stimulated popular interest in accounts of Jesus that were never included in the Bible. The novel led many to believe that the New ...

What does The Da Vinci Code have to do with a letter written by the archbishop of Alexandria in the year 367? As it turns out, quite a lot. Call it part of the Gnostic connection, a long, fine thread ...

In this majestic new book, Pagels (The Gnostic Gospels) ranges panoramically over the history of early Christianity, demonstrating the religion's initial tremendous diversity and its narrowing to ...

Timing is everything. Jesus’ fatal confrontations with religious and political authorities in Jerusalem coincided with the crowds of pilgrims arriving for Passover. Almost 2,000 years later, attentive ...

In December of 1945, a pair of brothers digging for fertilizer near limestone caves near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi discovered an ancient red earthenware jar containing 13 papyrus ...

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 ...

Marvin W. Meyer, an expert on Gnosticism and ancient texts about Jesus outside the New Testament who challenged the traditional portrayal of Judas Iscariot as the ultimate biblical villain, has died.

If I were to create a "Saturday Night Live" character based on New York Daily News columnist Linda Stasi, I would call her "Linda Sassy." Read her full-page Sunday column of columns -- in which she ...

If there ever was one unified Christian movement, it probably died with Jesus at the first Easter. Ever since, Christianity has been a collection of any number of diverse groups. Some - such as the ...