by Brian | Dec 12, 2012 | Culture, Current Events, Science
Marco Rubio is the junior Senator from Florida. He is also, if you’re not aware, one of the top people expected to contend for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. If you haven’t already heard, he recently gave an interview to GQ magazine...
by Brian | Nov 21, 2012 | Biblical History, Current Events
Back in September I posted the news and reaction to a discovery by Harvard Professor Karen King of a papyrus document which quoted Jesus as referring to his wife. It unleashed a lot of news coverage, as these things usually do. Here was an ancient source showing that...
by Brian | Sep 21, 2012 | Biblical History, Current Events
In case you haven’t heard the news yet, a Harvard professor announced this week that she has found an Ancient Coptic manuscript (pictured above) which records Jesus referring to, “my wife.” Here’s the New York Times account: A historian of...
by Brian | Mar 27, 2012 | Current Events
Yesterday I saw this article from Ross Douthat in the New York Times. It’s about Tim Tebow, and his trade to New York. This portion contained one of the most encouraging (and exhortive!) sentences I’ve ever read about a currently living christian: Why is...
by Brian | Nov 25, 2011 | Culture, Current Events
The image of Jesus as a kind of green hippie revolutionary is so commonplace in our day that often it is not even questioned. This was brought home to me again with our recent trips down to Occupy Philly, where several times I heard someone remark that Jesus would...
