Timing is everything. Jesus’ fatal confrontations with religious and political authorities in Jerusalem coincided with the crowds of pilgrims arriving for Passover. Almost 2,000 years later, attentive ...

The world is a garden, but it has been overrun with weeds. Our human souls, trapped in Earthly bodies, long to return to a purer state. When that time draws near, two prophets will appear to warn the ...

Morpheus, a man with circular mirrored glasses, approaches Neo Anderson, a young man who feels something is wrong with the world. “You are a slave, Neo,” the man continues. “You, like everyone else, ...

Near the nexus of Hillhurst Avenue and Sunset and Hollywood boulevards, Bishop Stephan Hoeller has presided since 1977 at Ecclesia Gnostica, the tiny, incense-infused chapel of the Gnostic Society.

Hallucinogenic and ominous, the Book of Revelation has inflamed the Western imagination for over 1,500 years, inspiring everything from cheesy horror movies to panics over bar codes (the Number of the ...

Professor Bart Ehrman, chair of the religious studies department at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), has written a widely used introduction to the New Testament and many books about ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Judge it by its cover, and you might imagine that Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is just another trashy airport novel, with no greater ...

A beast from the sea with seven heads and 10 horns. A 200 million-man army. The four horsemen of the apocalypse. These and other mythical and terrifying images are part of the most esoteric writing of ...