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February 2020

February 10, 2020

Abortion Trumps Pedophilia, Says Catholic Priest

Abortion trumps everything!—Rhode Island priest says “pedophilia doesn’t kill anyone,” but forbids Communion given to...

February 10, 2020

Evangelists Sometimes Didn’t Understand Jesus

Evangelists were elites representing two percent of the total population who could read and write—because...

February 08, 2020

Fiery Catalyst is what “Salt of the Earth” Means

Fiery catalysts, rather than flavoring or preservative, is what Jesus calls his disciples to be...

February 07, 2020

Missing Gospel Stories!

Missing from one Gospel, but included in another, traditions about Jesus differ widely between “Matthew,”...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

“Picard” Stellar Despite Fan Feelings

"PICARD," the latest Star Trek offering, is great, but it offers us an opportunity to...

January 30, 2020

Difficulties! Gospels Cannot be Biographies!

Difficulties abound for Western Bible readers expecting of the Gospels the kind of fact-precise, historically...

January 25, 2020

Conversion (or Metanoia) of Paul?

Conversion of Paul is January 25—but how did he “convert” when he remained Israelite all...

January 23, 2020

Sayings of Jesus Grew Into Gospel Stories

Sayings of Jesus, originally pithy zingers, grew over time into much larger Gospel passages as...

January 21, 2020

Sacrilege Reveals Scratch-Off Atheists

Sacrilege should never happen, but sometimes it does, and it can even be the occasion...

January 20, 2020

Gospels and Beyond—Comparing “Sayings” of Jesus

Gospels, whether canonical or not, present difficulties to scholars wishing to learn about the historical...

January 18, 2020

Changing Jesus: A Perennial Tradition

Changing deeds and words of Jesus is not something recent in Christian history—from New Testament...

January 14, 2020

Baptism of the Lord: Revealing the Identity of Jesus

Baptism, when it comes to Jesus’ own, was both revelation and discovery of his identity....

January 12, 2020

Hart, Martin, and the Evolution of Hell

Hart vs Martin: good men grapple over the mystery of God's salvation and justice. The...

January 10, 2020

Self Inquiry—Who Did Jesus Think He Was?

Self to Jesus Meant?—Inappropriate questions about Jesus’ self-consciousness are generated by Western ethnocentrism. Self, as...

January 06, 2020

Comedian Ricky Gervais and Costly Grace

Comedian Ricky Gervais may have just shown us a glimpse of a rare sight: COSTLY...

January 04, 2020

Magi—Three Kings Revisited

Magi in "Matthew," often thought in spurious familiarity as “Three Kings,” showcase many layers of...

January 03, 2020

Celestial VIP—Christmas Stars and How to Write Them

Celestial Occurrence is but one trope featured in manuals instructing ancients how to write about great...

January 01, 2020

Did Mary Know?—Considering the Mother of God

Did Mary know everything that is asked in the popular Christian song, "Mary Did You...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

Jews? Or Judeans? Can Fixing Nomenclature Save Lives?

Jews should be read Judeans in our Bibles and lectionary, and this correction could help...

December 30, 2019

Fulfillment of Prophecy—Misunderstanding Old Testament Citations in “Matthew”

Fulfillment of biblical prophecies, such as Isaiah's promised birth of Emmanuel by the "virgin," isn't...

December 25, 2019

Away With the Manger (That’s In Your Ideas)

Away in a Manger, the old American Christmas carol, gets reimagined as "Away with the...

December 23, 2019

Christmas According to “Matthew”

Christmas in the Gospel called “Matthew” is the earliest expression on record of Jesus’ birth,...

December 20, 2019

Pregnancy and Lies—Joseph, Mary & Christmas

Pregnancy can be deadly in the Bible, but honorable people might lie about it in...

December 18, 2019

Horror at Christmas—Mary’s Shameful Pregnancy

Horror stories fill the pages of Scripture, but none so prominently as the Infancy Narrative...

December 17, 2019

Marriage Biblical Style—Mary, Joseph, and Christmas in “Matthew”

Marriage in the Bible, as between Mary and Joseph in the Christmas stories of "Matthew"...

December 13, 2019

Jesus’ Infancy Stories—All True, Some Facts

True throughout, but with only some facts—that’s the Gospel Infancy Narratives of “Matthew” and “Luke.”...

December 11, 2019

Genealogies Contradict in “Matthew” and “Luke”

Genealogies in the Gospels, hardly factual, are about establishing Jesus’ honor, not his actual patrilineal...

December 10, 2019

History or Not? Discrepancies in Jesus’ Birth Stories

History?—Discrepancies and contradictions preclude treating either Matthew 1—2 or Luke 1—2 as historically accurate in...

December 08, 2019

Different Jesus Birth Stories

Different accounts of Jesus birth and infancy—the Christmas stories found in Matthew 1—2 and Luke...

December 05, 2019

Memoirs of Mary—Jesus’ Infancy Stories?

Memoirs, whether of Mary or Joseph, being used as the sources for Gospel Infancy Narratives...