This book is in some ways a sequel to ‘The Gospel of Jesus’. In this book I tried to imagine how various of the people who encountered Jesus, both men and women, would have described those encounters and the impressions they left on them. Of course for many, many of them it became a life changing experience. And this of course raises the question— What was it about Jesus that caused that to happen? Was it just the miracles? Was... Read more
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Alert Reader Professor Phil Jenkins sent this Wall Street Journal Review along to me. It should remind us all that deep desire for something to be true, does not make it true. One has to do scholarship on the basis of facts and solid evidence, and there is always a need for peer review by competent critical scholars in one’s field, not merely by friends or relatives. ‘Veritas’ Review: Crimson Faces A real-life Harvard melodrama, featuring a feminist scholar, a... Read more
This is Paul playing in a club he played in the 60s in Liverpool– the famous Cavern Club, and with an all star band. Yes that’s David Gilmour of Pink Floyd fame on lead guitar, and Ian Paice from Deep Purple on Drums. This happened in 1999, a mere 40 years after rock n’ roll really got rollin, and only 21 years ago from now. Sadly, Paul doesn’t sound like this any more. Read more
Pay close attention to John’s testimony of how he responded to racism and being beaten. This was based entirely on him embracing the ethic of Jesus as represented in the Sermon on the Mount. Read more
The following is the reflections of W. R. Matthews, an Anglican minister who died in 1973: “If we are in fact strangers and pilgrims, we have certain conclusions to draw which concern our daily lives. There is a counsel in most spiritual religions…that we should cultivate detachment. This has not meant, in the mind of the best spiritual guides, that we should wrap ourselves in an inhuman aloofness from the affairs of human beings, or that we should look on... Read more
Over the course of the seven years between 2012-2019, my favorite TV show, by far, has been the revamped Sherlock Holmes saga known as Elementary. Johnnie Miller and Lucy Lieu were perfect foils for each other, and Robert Doherty is an excellent script writer/overseer of the entire series. It should have won all sorts of Emmys. What made it especially interesting are the following: 1) changing the setting to New York in the present day, while still name dropping the... Read more
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