Today The Telegraph has a great interview with Richard Burridge concerning Monty Python's Life of Brian.  I love this movie, and any s...

I'm very sorry to hear of the passing of Birger Gerhardsson.  I never met Gerhardsson personally but have only continued to appreciate ...

Readers of the blog will be not be surprised at the announcement of the Jesus Blog's 2013 Book of the Year:  Jens Schroeter's From...

The good folks at Baker Academic alerted me to a review of my and Larry Hurtado's co-edited textbook Jesus among Friends and Enemies in...

Got those post-Christmas blues? Turn that frown upside-down! Why not celebrate the birth of Jesus on the date(s) that the early Christians d...

Judy Redman wasn't able to make it to annual SBL this year, but has been blogging her way through the audio that's now available her...

On the Mystery of the Incarnation by Denise Levertov It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the ...

In his first post , Brian Pounds pointed out a fallacy at the heart of Reza Aslan’s logic concerning Jesus’ political agenda and the telo...

It is my great pleasure to introduce you, gentle reader, to Brian Pounds. Brian is a Ph.D. candidate at Cambridge. His dissertation “The Cri...

Disclaimers: (1) I do not watch reality television. (2) I tend to like "both/and" solutions, so I am biased toward this sort of pe...

I recently received a copy of Rafael Rodriguez's new book, Oral Tradition and the New Testament (T&T Clark, 2014).  I had the honor...

For Christians who attend large churches, Christmas plays and live nativities are an amalgam of angels, stars, kings, shepherds, farm animal...

Last weekend Premier Radio in the UK aired a lively discussion between me and Reza Aslan (author of Zealot ).  If you've read the book ...