Our Mission
The Curious Christian exists to take faith seriously enough to ask hard questions about it. We engage the history of Christianity, the text of the Bible, and the claims made about Jesus, by believers and skeptics alike, through the lens of mainstream scholarship, primary sources, and careful reasoning.
Curiosity is not the enemy of faith. It’s how faith grows up.
Inquire Honestly
No question is off-limits: including the uncomfortable ones.
Engage the Sources
Follow the evidence wherever it leads
Listen Generously
We disagree with care, not contempt.
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Keep Asking Questions With Us
This site runs on curiosity; mine as well as yours. We all stumble upon questions that we don’t have answers for, that continue to nag at us. If you want to dive deeper into them, you’re in the right place.
- Rethinking the “Dark Ages”: Why the Story of the Lights Going Out Falls Apart
There is a version of the Dark Ages question that deserves real respect. It usually comes from someone who has heard that… - The Long Afterlife of the New Testament Apocrypha: How the Canon Kept Growing After the Fourth Century
Many people imagine that the New Testament canon was decided all at once, perhaps when Athanasius of Alexandria sent out his Thirty-Ninth… - The People Beneath the Patriarchs: Class, Wealth, and the Religion of Ordinary Israelites
If you read through the Hebrew Bible, you may notice something peculiar. Nearly every named character seems to own land, have servants,…