Christ the Tao

Sigh.  It's Bambi vs. Godzilla, all over again.  Hector Avalos wants to step back in the ring with Jesus of Nazareth. 

Sometimes it takes me a while, but reading the Mark passage about washing hands this morning on the roof of my apartment, it suddenly occ...

The Stream just published a short piece I wrote about Mom and the Bible -- right before Mother's Day!  Happy Mothers' Day to those...

Those of us who are Christians should care deeply about truth.

Neither do car repair manuals usually mention the Makah Indians or totem poles.  What could they   possibly be for?    As ...

I often tell students to read original sources.  Hear for yourself from people of a different time and way of thinking.  Every historian is...

C. S. Lewis famously pointed out that the devil sends errors into the world in pairs.   That way, those who embrace one error can feed off...

In On The Historicity of Jesus , Richard Carrier differentiated between the historical evidence for a claim, say "Jesus lived," ...

Amazon is a fun place, but I wish the natives would wittle up some sharper spears.  Here's a critic, I think an editor in real life, w...

That's what Miguel de la Torre says .  At least in the US:  A typical evangelical worship service.  "Christianity has died i...

But Jesus didn't just sit there. In our last post, we looked at an overview of an important Hindu text, The Law of Manu .  This work...