Christianity
Larry Hurtado, “The Significance of Earliest Devotional Practices”
Larry Hurtado is a New Testament scholar, historian of early Christianity and Emeritus Professor of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (Professor 1996-2011).
Dale Martin, “The Theological Inadequacy of Historiography: the Empty Tomb in History and Theology”
Dale B. Martin is the Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies at Yale.
“How Did Jesus Become God?” – Bart Ehrman and Michael Bird in Dialogue + Q&A – Part 2
Streamed live 16 hours ago
“How Did Jesus Become God?” – Bart Ehrman and Michael Bird in Dialogue + Q&A
Streamed live 18 hours ago
A Toronto church holds a “queer Eucharist”
The Anglican Journal reports today, ‘A Toronto church [part of the Anglican church] now offers a eucharist for LGBT people. At next week’s queer Eucharist, Primate Fred Hiltz is slated to deliver a sermon on the Primates’ Meeting last month in… Read More ›
Classic Christian/Muslim debate: Did Jesus die for our sins?
Surprisingly funny debate between Shabir Ally and Jay Smith. Ally is on great form. 5 minute clip.
In case you are wondering: the Catholic Church’s laws of fasting and abstinence.
It is now officially the first day of Lent that begins on Ash Wednesday (today) and covers a period of approximately six weeks before Easter Sunday. The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer through prayer, penance, repentance… Read More ›
Caliphate: The Arab Conquest
In just a few short years Muslim armies conquered what we call today the Middle East defeating the powerful Byzantine and Persian empires. This was in part a military conquest but the majority of the population were Christian with significant… Read More ›
Shameless Bigotry: Jay Smith, James White and Steven Martins – Christian Missionaries
Yahya Snow’s hilarious exposure of the cultural ignorance and supremacism of fundamentalist Christians. Snow says, ‘If you’re from the East watch out, any mistake you make in morality, social convention or argumentation that may well be ascribed to your CULTURE by folk in the West. Western… Read More ›
White/Christian/European/American terrorism
Here’s an important map showing the sacred land of Natives/Indigenous people and how it was stolen over the course of 500 years. This is genocide. It’s terrorism, and White/Christian/European/American terrorism at that. So when #OregonUnderAttack terrorists bang on about “taking their… Read More ›
Why a Christian Can View Muhammad As A Prophet
Dr. Craig Considine is a Catholic American of Irish and Italian descent. Craig is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Rice University in Houston, Texas. As a sociologist, he focuses on the sociology of religion, race and… Read More ›
Trinitarianism
Fridolin Leiber, ‘Holy Trinity’, late 19th century or early 20th century you can tell which one is Jesus. I didn’t know God became incarnated three times.
The Word of God issue Settled
A very slick and entertaining new video about the God, the Quran and Christianity. Well worth watching!
Jesus idolatry
Yes, Jesus was a great moral and spiritual teacher, but surely not the only one?
Things Jesus never said
Donald J. Trump just tweeted: Great honor- Rev. Jerry Falwell Jr. of Liberty University, one of the most respected religious leaders in our nation, has just endorsed me!
Bart Ehrman update on new book about Jesus
In just over a month now, my new book, Jesus Before the Gospels, will be published. As avid readers of the blog know, for a couple of years I was obsessed with issues related to human memory and oral tradition,… Read More ›
Christian Beliefs and the Infrastructure of the Holocaust
With International Holocaust Remembrance Day quickly approaching, it is time to reassess the ancient accusations against the Jews that formed the basis for the Shoah’s infrastructure. Christianity introduced two extreme criminal concepts into the history of ideas: that the Jews were… Read More ›
The great American preacher Jonathan Edwards on spanking children
‘The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.’ Proverbs 20:30 KJV I just note how times have changed in the US. Today Jonathan Edwards would be persecuted for inciting grievous bodily… Read More ›
The gospel of Jesus, the Injil and the Quran
I am having an ongoing discussion with a very intelligent Christian friend of mine and I thought I would share bits of the conversation, which may be of interest. They will remain anonymous. My Christian friend brings up the subject of… Read More ›
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