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 ...

Wrapped up in "The Da Vinci Code" whirlwind, the world is in an uproar and captivated by the questions the all-time bestselling novel raises regarding Christianity’s most notable and cherished ...

Yesterday the world learned of a newly-discovered early Christian text that depicts Jesus as a married man. Jesus’ wife may be big news today, but striking and unusual variations on Christian faith ...

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 ...

The discovery at Nag Hammadi began with an Arab villager whose name was Mohammed Ali going with his brothers on an ordinary errand. They saddled up their camels and they rode out from their village, a ...

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 ...

The 52 texts discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt include 'secret' gospels poems and myths attributing to Jesus sayings and beliefs which are very different from the New Testament. Scholar Elaine Pagels ...

Click here to listen to Edward Hirsch read this poem. We are like a surviving Gnostic sect, *****living in caves and eating fallen fruit, *****practicing our own brand of adoration, ...