The video explores how the Ichthys acronym ("Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior") developed, the theories surrounding its origins, and why the idea of the fish as a covert Christian handshake is ...

The Greek word for fish is "ichthys." As early as the first century ... 5,000 with 2 fishes and 5 loaves (a meal recapitulated in Christian love-feasts) and called his disciples "fishers of ...

Photo courtesy PBS We all know the Darwin fish, the car-bumper send-up of the Christian ichthys symbol, or Jesus fish. Unlike the Christian symbol, the Darwin fish has, you know, legs. But the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. We all know the Darwin fish, the car-bumper send-up of the Christian “ichthys ...

ichthys, the Greek word for "fish." And, by the middle of the 2nd century, it was already much in use by Christians. Back in the day if you were a Christian, you could be arrested or even ...

A day later, Karen Andrews and her daughter Jamie both had blue Ichthys fish — the Christian symbol linked to Jesus — stencilled on their wrists. "All my life I thought about tattoos ...