(The Conversation) — Several threads, including pre-Christian mythology, veneration of relics in Christian tradition, and medieval literature, have combined over the centuries into the Holy ...

Krampus is a complex figure associated with Christmas myth and folklore. He’s simultaneously a punishing enforcer of good behavior and a nightmarish, horned monster who whips children into ...

Can we think about evil without getting caught up in Christian mythology? In “The Devil’s Best Trick,” Randall Sullivan examines the origins of evil.

As a Black woman, I challenge the authority. I challenge all of these notions that have been laid out starting with creation, starting with this, I call it ‘Christian mythology,’ right?

Several threads, including pre-Christian mythology, veneration of relics in Christian tradition, and medieval literature, have combined over the centuries into the Holy Grail metaphor of today.