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Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor Emeritus of the History of the Church at Oxford. He is the author of A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years and Lower Than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity, which was published last spring. He was knighted in 2012. (December 2025)
An Outsider from the Beginning
Sifting the contradictions of the Bible can bring Jesus and Mary into sharper focus and illuminate their surprisingly human features.
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus
by Elaine Pagels
The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus
by James D. Tabor
December 18, 2025 issue
The Vitality of Orthodoxy
The Eastern Orthodox Church: A New History
by John Anthony McGuckin
July 2, 2020 issue
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