THE MOCKING OF CARABBAS
There is a passage in the Alexandrian writer Philo that casts a curious light on Christian origins, and I wish I understood it better. Let me put it out there for discussion. Philo reports on the...
View ArticleTHE CAVE OF TREASURES
Throughout history, both Jews and Christians have been extraordinarily prolific in producing alternative scriptures, which we conventionally divide into Old and New Testament apocrypha (or...
View ArticleThe Age of Tyrants
Josephus recorded the history of the Jewish people in the last two centuries before the Christian Era. Reading that story today must many of our assumptions about the world we know from the New...
View ArticleIncarnate, Crucified, Resurrected: What It Means to Be the Body of Christ
What the Body of Christ has in common with the historical body of Jesus — and what that means for the project of Christian higher education.
View ArticleFinding Jesus’s Mother
Over the Christmas season, we naturally hear so much about Jesus’s mother, Mary, and in conversations, I am always a bit taken aback (not to mention amused) to find how many of the popular stories...
View ArticleThe Crucifixions of the World Wars
As Christians prepare for Good Friday, Chris considers how the Crucifixion helped Europeans make meaning of the two world wars.
View ArticlePilate’s Holy Saturday
In part because the gospel accounts have so little to say about Holy Saturday, in part because I often wake up this day with little to do, I often find myself speculating. Not necessarily What...
View ArticleJesus, Robert Graves, and the Mount of Olives
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an...
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