I just noticed today that there is a mythicist group on Facebook, “Jesus Birther Movement (Demand his birth certificate).” Poe’s Law seems to apply here… Read more

Peter Kirby has posted an open letter expressing serious concern about the way I have expressed myself in my recent post and more generally in my treatment of Earl Doherty’s self-published book Jesus: Neither God Nor Man. I suspect that eventually the comment I left there will appear, but since it has not yet, I will include it here. Peter, thank you so much for posting this. I have all along struggled with what the appropriate tone for my discussion... Read more

On a couple of other blogs I’ve encountered some criticism of my supposedly not having adequately presented the full extent of Earl Doherty’s claims and arguments in his book Jesus: Neither God Nor Man – The Case for a Mythical Jesus. When someone offers a homeopathic remedy as a solution to an illness, I don’t see the need for a defender of mainstream medicine to point out that it is water and staying hydrated is a good thing, and can... Read more

The blogosphere is still recovering from Blogger’s outage. Posts that had been deleted seem to be being restored. Here are some interesting things from around the blogs that are still there for your reading pleasure. Marc Cortez shares the nine steps of commenting on the internet. Dan McClellan mentions a book on religion and the X-Files that sounds interesting: We Want to Believe: Faith and Gospel in the X-Files. Jim Davila mentions a news piece on the lead plates, which ignores... Read more

I received word yesterday that the eBook from a conference held in 2003, at which I read a paper, has finally been published. The title is Visions of the Human in Science Fiction & Cyberpunk, and the book can be downloaded as a pdf. My chapter is “The Desert of the Real:  Christianity, Buddhism & Baudrillard in The Matrix Films and Popular Culture.” Read more

Via Tom Thatcher I learned that the Australian eJournal of Theology is back and available online. Read more

Hi everyone! Blogger is working again, and so blogging can resume! Apologies to all of you who wanted to comment and couldn’t. As for me, it was even worse – I wanted to blog, and couldn’t! Read more

When a blog ends its life at Blogger and moves to Patheos, do you say that the blog has undergone an aPatheosis? Read more

Charles Halton has shared his translation of the Akkadian “Prayer to Any God” as well as an introductory video. Read more