Early Christian Writings is back!

Posted by Quixie at 4:32 AM

I'm happy to see that Peter Kirby's website devoted to Early Christian Writings has been resurrected. I, for one, have missed this ...

PBS documentary on historical Jesus ...

Posted by Quixie at 4:16 AM

PBS recently finally made its Frontline episode From Jesus to Christ available for streamed viewing on their website. It's a four hour...

Rei Momo

Posted by Quixie at 11:54 AM

I had a bone to pick in the past year ( † & ‡ ) with Ben Witherington ( W ), one of the most active and best known conservative apol...

weird Jesuses #4

Posted by Quixie at 5:12 PM

I love this woodcut I came across. ( from Deeper in me than I ) .

Open Question for NT Scholars #1

Posted by Quixie at 11:45 AM

I'm going to start a new feature on this blog, in which I will ask some of the questions that are the most problematic for me as a stude...

weird Jesuses #3 ...

Posted by Quixie at 11:56 AM

Here's a primitive woodcut: The Way to Emmaus.

weird Jesuses #2

Posted by Quixie at 5:43 PM

Light by Sigfried Reinhardt - 1959 A free-jazz Jesus? Ó . heathen heathens atheists atheist agnostic skeptic skeptical buddhist buddhism ja...

JºA

Posted by Quixie at 2:46 PM

Over at Pistoumen , there's an interesting theory (nay, a rumination) regarding the identity of Joseph "of Arimathea." (JºA) T...

weird Jesuses #1

Posted by Quixie at 1:45 PM

In my studies, I sometimes encounter visual representations of Jesus or of people related to the Christian scriptures that fall outside of t...

wutherin' depths . . .

Posted by Quixie at 1:36 AM

Recently the name of Ben Witherington came up in a dialogue between bloggers . One blogger was pointing out a consensus position on the pro...

Parousia blues (an apocalypse deferred)

Posted by Quixie at 2:32 PM

. . . or - The trouble with Bart Ehrman. I downloaded Bart Ehrman's series of lectures on the historical Jesus on The Teaching Company l...

On the Centenarian Defense as an Apologetic Strategy...

Posted by Quixie at 3:23 PM

I'd like to devote this post to a subtle apologetic technique that I've encountered in recent conversations and blogsurfs. Some Chri...

on relics . . .

Posted by Quixie at 8:13 AM

On Saturday, the 23rd of February, of the year 155 C.E., Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, one of the most venerable and outspoken Christian heres...

barefoot servants too . . . (another polaroid)

Posted by Quixie at 6:06 PM

When I was seventeen years old I lived in the Bronx. The stomping grounds went from the upper 190s north along the Grand Concourse (starting...

brimstone (the polaroid)

Posted by Quixie at 11:10 AM

I decided to go down to Mill Ave. to see what was playing at the Valley Art Theater . This theater was the place where Dan Harkins, the man ...