Readers respond to Jessica Winter’s review of “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” by Pagan Kennedy, and Nicola Twilley’s article about artificial blood.

Rebellion’s Atomfall doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but its Cumbrian setting breathes life and character into the Bethesda-style ...

It was there that they finally agreed to stick with the Roman practice of determining Easter. This brought England in line ...

In the Old Testament we can read the account of the female prophet, teacher, and leader Huldah who  played a key role in ...

In the First Reading, Nineveh is described as an “awesomely great city” (v 3) not just for its enormous size and power, but for its enormous sins. The Assyrians had destroyed the northern kingdom of ...

For the last two thousand years antisemitism or hatred of the Jewish People has come from two main directions, Christianity ...

Yet history may be far more complex and nuanced ... Bozrah—not to mention the Queen of Sheba, who sought an alliance with Solomon. For centuries, Dilmun navigated between the Babylonians ...

This attempt to turn back the clock included the purging of Christian texts from schools, the conversion of Christian churches into pagan temples ... Swist explains that we may well empathize ...

But sometimes the story has other plans when we face the villain, because that boss fight never happens. We're led to believe ...

The king cake is an time-honored part of Mardi Gras tradition, and it means something significant if you find a small plastic baby in your slice.

When King Dagobert died, Queen Nanthilde ... Tournai died on May 13, 640, the clergy and people unanimously made Eligius his successor. Because the majority of his diocese was pagan, Eligius ...

Although some argue that the May Queen is a modern invention, its roots lie in our pagan past and the traditions of Beltane.