What makes a good methodology? Well, the first step is to have a clear methodology. And it probably pays to understand the topic. For Matthew Britt and Jaaron Wingo, authors’ of “Christ Before Jesus,” they lack in both departments. This is part two of my critique their work. One of the things that gave some…
Can stylometry prove Jesus, or even Paul, didn’t exist? Short answer, no. Yet, that is a main focus in the book, Christ Before Jesus, a work that tries to further the Jesus Myth case. As a former mythicist, someone who accepted the conclusion that Jesus was a mythical figure, the argument was rather intriguing as…
People come to faith for a variety of reasons. Sometimes they are born into it; other times, they have a Paul-like moment where everything just snaps. Other times, like for me, it’s a return to the faith. Hello and welcome. My name is Dustin White, and I’m an ex-evangelical, former atheist, and an anti-apologist. For…
Steven is a great scientist. But as with many scientists, they are out of their depth when speaking of history. Largely because the manner in which both are studied is rather different. So let’s break this article down. The first point that needs to be addressed is this idea that it’s not surprising that one…
I first just want to start off saying that I really enjoy most things Steven puts out. But I think he should stay in fields he actually knows, and I don’t think this is one. While he calls the piece he’s responding to as poorly informed, his response really isn’t any better. (To see Steven’s…
“Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,” James 1:19. It’s advice that greatly changed my life nearly a decade and a half ago. While I had grown up in an evangelical Christian household, as a teen I rebelled. I first turned to other religions, but eventually I would give up…
Ever since Dan Brown’s book, The Da Vinci Code, there has been a mass of misinformation about Constantine and the Council of Nicaea. This information was already circulating before Brown’s book, but he helped propel this conspiracy theory into the mainstream. Brown isn’t a historian, but he made very clear historical statements. But as with…
Every once in a while, I see a meme pop up about religion. For a long time, I’d think about them, and then my wife would hear about all that was wrong with the meme, but recently I started saving the meme itself. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with them, but…
Christian faith does not have to be a belief in the unbelievable. Yet over the last few decades, this is how many have begun to speak about Christianity. That Christian faith requires one to blindly accept it, regardless of whether the ideas are truly believable. For many within the faith, this wouldn’t be a fair…
Every few years, headlines proclaim that belief in God is declining in the United States. The claims often stem from polls conducted by the Pew Research Center, which have for some time shown a gradual increase in the number of people classified as “nones,” those with no religious affiliation. At the same time, those who…