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I'm grateful to renowned evangelical scholar J. P. Moreland for his endorsement of my recent work on Mike Licona as well as for his endo...

On the puzzle concerning Luke 9:51, see here .

Though I'm on indefinite Facebook hiatus, I was made aware yesterday of a post in a Facebook apologetics group in which it was stated th...

My webinar called "Six Bad Habits of New Testament Scholars and How to Avoid Them" is now available on Youtube . Have fun watching...

I admit: I have always had trouble achieving Cartesian clarity about the fact that evil is strictly a privation. I have a strong philosophic...

Next week, on January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany (as it happens), I will be doing a webinar for Apologetics Academy entitled "Six Ba...

Yes, I know, the shepherds didn't really follow the star, but this is a great Christmas carol anyway. And there were shepherds who follo...

The fifth post in my series on Why Are There Differences in the Gospels? is up at What's Wrong With the World. There will in all li...

There have been two new posts in the series on alleged fictionalization in the Gospels. Fake Points Don't Make Points emphasizes the im...

Everything old is new again. If you're interested to see how a more rigorous member of the New Testament guild deals, without personal a...

I have a new post up on Licona examples. This one concerns over-reading connected with chronology. It's a theme that comes up repeated...

My next post on Licona's gospel examples went live today at W4. It is called "Fictions Only Need Apply." Here I examine place...

I have a new post up at What's Wrong With the World on some of Michael Licona's examples in the Gospels. Again, as always, this is ...

We pause in our usual programing to bring you this blast from the Soviet past: Russian government frames dissidents to punish for embarras...

I have a new, long post at W4 on some examples discussed by Mike Licona from Plutarch and one from Tacitus. I know it's long, and some ...

Here is an excellent contribution on the historicity of the "I Am" sayings by Rob Bowman. I would especially draw attention to re...

Dr. Michael Licona has posted the current version of a response to my remarks here . A fair bit of it is assertion without argument, but the...

A Reasonable Faith group in Tennessee invited me to address their group. Since I had heard that they have rather lengthy meetings, I prepare...

[Update, spring, 2018: Please see this transcript for a fuller version of Evans's comments in 2012 concerning the Gospel of John. (See...