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November 2020

November 21, 2020

History and Creative Writing

Imagine you find the following page that has become detached from a book in your...

May 2020

May 17, 2020

I’ll Believe in Demons When Pigs Fly

I'll start this post with another tidbit from my Sunday school class from a while...

April 2020

April 09, 2020

The Judas Passion and Graphic Novel

Teaching a course on the Bible and music leads me to encounter so much material...

May 2019

May 03, 2019

What Happened to the Twelve Apostles?

The post-New Testament stories of the apostles made the news a while back, thanks to...

August 2018

August 06, 2018

Don’t Interpret the Bible, Just Read It

You have probably all heard fundamentalists such as young-earth creationists insist that they don’t interpret...

June 2018

June 13, 2018

Time Travel and Biblical Contradictions

Pete Enns recently mentioned time travel in connection with a tension between stories about how...

April 2018

April 02, 2018

Jesus Christ Superstar (2018)

I wasn't sure whether I'd end up blogging about the live performance of Jesus Christ...

July 2015

July 16, 2015

Recognizing Evil

This meme came to my attention on Facebook, and of course I had to share...

June 2015

June 21, 2015

Judas!

From Berger & Wyse.

November 2014

November 28, 2014

Black Friday

From The Jesuit Post via Unvirtuous Abbey on Facebook

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Mythicism’s Methodological Mess

It is funny that some mythicists think that, in pointing out that there are lots...

March 2014

March 07, 2014

Was Jesus Sold for Drug Money?

The short answer to the question in the title of this post is almost certainly...

May 2013

May 26, 2013

Judas Scariot (Rick Wakeman)

 

April 2013

April 01, 2013

Early Christian Nicknames

The main reason there are so many nicknames in the New Testament is because there...

January 2013

January 17, 2013

The Judas Kiss of Much Modern Christianity

Today's cartoon by David Hayward hits the nail on the head about a lot of...

December 2012

December 13, 2012

April De Conick on the Gospel of Judas and More

April De Conick shared the above video on her blog, in which she discusses her...

September 2012

September 21, 2012

BibleWorks 9 and the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife

Today a wonderful opportunity to continue illustrating more features of BibleWorks 9 has presented itself....

March 2012

March 02, 2012

Was Thaddaeus Jesus’ Original Drummer, or his Secretary of Housing and Urban Development?

In my historical Jesus class yesterday, one of the topics was the twelve apostles. When...

January 2012

January 09, 2012

The Burial of Jesus, the James Ossuary, and the Talpiot Tomb

I've been revising The Burial of Jesus: History and Faith and I hope a second...

June 2011

June 19, 2011

Judas and the Field of Blood (From the Archives)

As I mentioned in a recent post, there is great difficulty fitting together the information...

June 14, 2011

Congratulations to Joel Watts!

One reliable sign that a blogger is taking a stand for truth and open to...

June 13, 2011

Harmonizing Judas With Doctor Who

This post isn't about singing harmony on a Lady Gaga song, but about turning a...

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