This CNN article reports on a growing scandal in New Testament studies. reblogged from CNN Joel Baden is professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale University. Candida Moss is professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of Notre… Read More ›
Christianity
BBC: Muslims have the strongest faith of all religious believers
reblogged from BBC News A big gender divide exists between men and women in their 40s in belief in God and life after death, a poll suggests. Of the British men surveyed, 54% said they were atheists or agnostics compared… Read More ›
‘Is there any difference between Jesus and Muhammad in terms of violence?’
reblogged from Nieuwwij.nl The terrorist attacks in Paris rendered her new book Fields of Blood, Religion and the History of Violence suddenly and tragically very urgent. In over five hundred pages Karen Armstrong, once a nun and the respected author… Read More ›
‘I did not go to heaven’: Paralyzed boy admits he made up best-selling book about how he ascended to paradise and met Jesus after car wreck
A boy whose tale of dying and going to heaven after a car crash that became a best-selling book has admitted to making the whole thing up. Alex Malarkey, now 16, lay in a coma for two months and was… Read More ›