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I dislike credentialism intensely. On the very rare occasions when I point out that a particular credential of mine is relevant to a certain...

A week ago today the podcast came out of my debate with Craig A. Evans on the reliability of the portrait of Jesus in John's Gospel. T...

I have just published at What's Wrong With the World a transcript of Craig A. Evans's comments in 2012 concerning both the ahistor...

The fact that Mark, in Mark 6, does not even purport to give Jesus' words but rather that the narrator expressly summarizes Jesus'...

I had the privilege yesterday to be on the Bellator Christi podcast with Brian Chilton discussing the contrast between the view of the Gosp...

Enter to win by sharing a new lecture by Tim McGrew. Tim has a new lecture called "Why Are There Differences in the Gospels?" de...

I Corinthians 15 12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead...

The "literary device" theory that I have written so much about in the past year holds that it was culturally accepted for the go...

As we go into Holy Week, this song is especially meaningful. It strikes me that perhaps the last time I shared it I didn't even know t...

This was one of those hymns I kept passing up in the hymnal, thinking, "I don't know that one." Well, it was time to get to kn...

Regular readers will remember the dust-up last fall in which I discussed the fact that ostensibly evangelical scholar Craig A. Evans had ag...

There is a strange talking point that I'm seeing amongst Dr. Licona's supporters, and I have a little trouble getting a handle on it...

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...