The early days of Christianity were quite complex. There were numerous beliefs, interpretations, and schisms. Most of them ...

Believing Muslims say we should have faith in the Quran because Allah literally spoke it to the angel Jibreel, who in turn ...

If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its ...

The Church is to gather all Gentiles to God to follow him. Then, at some point soon, God will hit “unpause” on his plans with ...

However, Alawites follow Muhammad Ibn Nusayr, who was a 10th-century disciple of the 11th imam and declared himself to be the ...

Another sect, led by a wealthy individual named Marcion (ca A.D. 85–160), son of the bishop of Sinope (today’s Sinop in Turkey), believed that Christianity should be uncoupled from Jewish ...

By the 21st century, Ms. Hoffman notes, it would become “the fastest-growing sect of Christianity with an estimated 650 million practitioners around the globe.” ...

He never mentions the city of Nazareth in his epistles, and the Acts of the Apostles describe him as the leader of the sect of the Nazarenes: “We have found this man (Paul) to be a plague; he ...

The parents of an 8-year-old girl who died after they withheld her insulin, encouraged by members of a small Christian sect who believed God would save her, have been sentenced to at least 14 ...

Fourteen members of a small Australian Christian sect who deprived an 8-year-old girl of insulin in the belief that God had healed her – or would raise her from the dead – have received ...