The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don’t want to go there.

One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them...

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need...

Some people may think that it is a dangerous attitude to take toward the Bible, to pick and choose what you want to accept and throw everything else out. My view is that everyone already...

Orthodoxy is my doxy and heterodoxy is your doxy.

Different authors have different points of view. You can’t just say, ‘I believe in the Bible.

Whoever is not against us is for us.” Did he say both things? Could hemean both things? How can both be true at once? Or is it possible thatone of the Gospel writers got things...

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew