The promise of resurrection for all God’s people in Christ carries a strongly political edge.

Jesus doesn’t really matter in Britain, but he clearly does in America. Why?

The early Christian martyrs were not reading the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas or the hypothetical sayings source that scholars refer to as “Q.” They were reading Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

I promise you it will be fun.

Gnawing on the bone of contention

The perils of publishing

Pushing the envelope

Photographing the past

To ransom them for posterity

A modest proposal

On an eroding stretch of Tunisia’s coastline, a Punic fishing community conjures up Africa’s great lost civilization.

The impossible will take forever

Would it hurt to exchange a few?

What do you think of our first two years?

Healthy, though spare and spiceless, fare

Chimtou, Tunisia, once supplied the building blocks of ancient Rome

Gilgamesh, too, must die

That always-controversial ancient world

Where to find a civilization’s heart?