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March 2021

March 28, 2021

Evolution of the Passion Story

Christians, evolution is real, and pietism drove it to develop the Passion Story in Mark’s...

February 2021

February 14, 2021

Wholeness and Healing Lepers

Here comes Sunday’s Gospel about Jesus brokering wholeness for a leper—except he wasn’t really a...

January 2021

January 15, 2021

Grandchildren Wrote the Gospels

History repeatedly shows a third-generation interest, which illuminates the origins of the Gospels as authored...

December 2020

December 05, 2020

The Model is Broken—Nothing Apocalyptic About Apocalypse

Our model for describing Revelation and Mark 13 is fundamentally flawed. Around this time of...

November 2020

November 29, 2020

Mark 13—Neither Apocalyptic Nor Eschatological

This Sunday's Gospel, taken from Mark 13, is about being ready, but not for the...

May 2020

May 25, 2020

Gospels—What are They & Why?

The Gospels are extremely different documents, in many ways remote when compared to what American...

May 11, 2020

Matthew and Mary: A Somewhat Nicer Picture

Matthew follows Mark, but slightly improves his overwhelmingly negative picture of Jesus’ mother. Matthew makes...

May 10, 2020

“Mark” and Mary for Mother’s Day

“Mark,” the earliest Gospel, does not present a flattering picture of Jesus’ biological family and...