Tony Burke has shared a preliminary program for the conference on the Secret Gospel of Mark scheduled for April. Read more

Here are two early Christian texts which those who favor abstinence-only sex education seem to ignore inexplicably: Acts of Paul and TheclaActs of Thomas Read more

I just got caught up on watching Fringe last night. The episode was almost entirely focused on souls – whether that of William Bell in Olivia Dunham’s body (and I have to say that Anna Torv does an incredible job of acting the role of someone else in her body – there were times when it seemed like she was about to burst into laughter, but it may just have been a Leonard Nimoy grin) or that of a woman who,... Read more

Jim West has shared the full press release about the lead books found in Jordan. It suggests that these could be early Jewish-Christian texts written in some sort of code, if they are authentic, which early indications seem to suggest that they are. Here’s the press release: Sealed http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf Read more

Via AMIR, I learned of some open-access journals based in Japan, with articles in Japanese and/or English on a range of topics, including Orient : report of the society for Near Eastern studies in Japan. Also, on the lead “scrolls” that made headlines recently, Jim West has more information from Philip Davies, and Jim Davila also has an update and links to photos. Read more

Via Jim West and Jim Davila, there is further information about alleged lead books discovered in Jordan which supposedly provide contemporary accounts of Jesus. It seems like most of what came through in the Daily Mail article is (surprise surprise) hype and misunderstanding of a bit of old news.  Read more

Dan McClellan reminds us that the time has come to vote for our favorite biblioblogs. I’ve voted. Have you? Read more

“Why are we Protestants, who exist because of people willing to question the status quo, so hostile to those who in turn question us?” — Mason, “In which I’m tired of the witch hunts” at New Ways Forward Read more

There’s serious discussion of religion and science between Francis Collins and Karl Giberson at BioLogos. But you will find Jim Linville’s LOLcat discussion more entertaining: And elsewhere in religious humor, Hemant Mehta shared a cartoon answering the question “What Would Jesus Do?” in an interesting and amusing way. Read more

I won a copy of Earl Doherty’s most recent book! Thanks for John Loftus for holding the giveaway! Read more