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Tom Holland on How Christianity Remade the World
Tom Holland joins Bari Weiss on Honestly (The Free Press)
This Christmas, one of our greatest living historians explains how one ‘radical message’ came to define the entirety of the Western world.
By Bari Weiss
12.24.24 — The Big Read
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Whether you believe in the story of the virgin birth and resurrection, or you believe that those miracles are myths, one thing is beyond dispute: The story of Jesus and the message of Christianity is among the stickiest ideas the world has ever seen.

Within four centuries of Jesus’s death, Christianity had become the official religion of the Roman Empire…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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