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Christmas: How It Started, What It Means, and How the World Made It Its Own

Christmas: Christmas is one of those rare holidays that is simultaneously religious, cultural, and global. For Christians, it commemorates the Nativity (birth) of Jesus Christ. For many others, it’s a season of family gatherings, generosity, food, music, lights, and community—sometimes with little religious content at all. Its story is a long one: it begins with […]

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Christianity: origins, evidence & how it spread to today

What historians broadly agree on Matters such as Jesus’s divinity or the Resurrection are theological claims. Historians can document the belief in them very early; their truth is a question of faith. From sect to church (1st–4th centuries) Schisms, reforms, and global spread Christianity today (numbers & where it’s growing) Key primary evidence (a sampler

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