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October 2025

October 30, 2025

Time Travelling Apologist

TIME TRAVELLING APOLOGIST Episode I VOICEOVER with theme music: Welcome to the Apologist News...

February 2025

February 14, 2025

Were the Gospels Anonymous?

Someone asked the question on Reddit of whether the New Testament Gospels were anonymous. Here...

August 2022

August 29, 2022

Lost Gospels and Lost Doctor Who Episodes

I thought I should write a blog post comparing lost Gospels to lost Doctor Who...

March 2021

March 03, 2021

What Jesus Learned from Women Press Kit Q&A

I thought I would share here on the blog a few brief questions and answers...

July 2020

July 17, 2020

Gospel Women Playlist

I had the idea to create a playlist to accompany my book, What Jesus Learned From...

May 2020

May 31, 2020

The Latest on the Historical Jesus and the Gospels

There has been so much of interest related to the historical Jesus and the Gospels...

December 2019

December 26, 2019

The Gospel of the Gaps (and the Gaps of the Gospels)

One of the things that mythicists regularly mention is the (in their view) long period...

October 2019

October 06, 2019

Rick Wakeman’s Prayers and (New) Gospels

Rick Wakeman has recorded several albums that intersect with the Bible, as well as more...

August 2019

August 26, 2019

When Jesus and Mythicists are Wrong

Here's what I wrote in a comment responding to some of the further discussion that...

August 26, 2018

The Gospels and Comparable Ancient and Modern Literature

Following up on yesterday's post, there were further topics that Matthew Ferguson explored about ancient...

February 2018

February 17, 2018

Biblical Authors as Artists

I really enjoyed learning from student blog posts not only what they are finding engaging...

November 2017

November 11, 2017

Jesus and the Gospels Museum

The Center for the Study of Christian Origins shared the news a while back about...

September 2017

September 07, 2017

Gospels.net Changes Hands

I received the following from Andrew Bernhard about a site that he has maintained for...

April 2017

April 08, 2017

John and the Synoptics

Elizabeth Corsar blogged about the fact that the relationship between the Gospel of John and...

August 2016

August 10, 2016

A Man Attested By God (A Book Attested By Me)

I blogged previously about Daniel Kirk's new book, A Man Attested By God. It is still...

May 2016

May 18, 2016

Were the Titles of the Gospel on #Sillyboi?

You may think I'm a "silly boy" for writing about this. But when Sarah Bond...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

An Explosive New Solution to the Synoptic Problem

This image came to my attention via Facebook. I've shared lots of Star Trek Q...

February 22, 2016

Dating the Gospels

Matthew Ferguson drew my attention to this discussion he had with Craig Evans about the...

February 05, 2016

Brant Pitre, The Case for Jesus

I am delighted to have the opportunity to participate in the Patheos Book Club about...

February 04, 2016

A New Blog From A Long-Time Blogger

Mike Kok, who has been blogging about the Gospel of Mark for a long time,...

November 2015

November 20, 2015

References in “50 Ways to Forge a Gospel”

At some point I'll post a listener's guide, if necessary, to the song "50 Ways...

November 19, 2015

50 Ways to Forge a Gospel

As the song lyrics indicate, it genuinely was at the 2015 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium...

September 2015

September 15, 2015

The Bible as Photo Album (Snapshots of a Dynamic Faith)

Two blog posts by Chuck Queen intersected with one another, and both made important points...

September 13, 2015

Review of Eric Eve, Behind the Gospels

Behind the Gospels: Understanding the Oral Tradition: Understanding the Oral Tradition. Eve's book is probably...

August 2015

August 13, 2015

Straight Outta the Synoptic Problem

Another Straight Outta Compton Bible meme that came to my attention via Joel Watts.

June 2015

June 19, 2015

It Is Dangerous To Deny Q

For the purists, the t-shirt really should say this: (Q is better when you...

December 2014

December 26, 2014

Are the Gospels Anonymous?

I created a draft post back in October when Michael Barber shared a link to an...

November 2014

November 04, 2014

Q Conference

Mark Goodacre mentioned a conference in Denmark in June 2015, “Gospel Interpretation and the Q‐Hypothesis.” I'm...

May 2014

May 28, 2014

Synoptic Potato Head

I've shared this before, some years ago, but it is worth circulating again. Click on...

April 2014

April 19, 2014

Ignoring the Most Biblical Explanation

The above chart comes from NonStamp Collector, via Hemant Mehta. In addition to Biblical inerrantists...

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