Most critics of Christianity have not studied crucifixion with any care. THE most important book on the subject ever written is by Martin Hengel. A skin dense volume called Crucifixion. No seriously historian doubts that Jesus of Nazareth was crucified by the Romans or they only

St. Augustine insisted on the absolute necessity of penance and, we are told by his good friend, practiced it regularly and especially during his final and fatal illness. In several sermons, he held almsgiving is absolutely necessary for the expiation of ordinary sins (he’s

Do I have proof, in Jefferson’s hand, of a connection between him and Bellarmine? I have the closest thing anyone has ever found one way or the other. And it’s pretty close to dispositive.

We libertarians need to admit this is true and that it provides reason to think we were wrong about the harms of marijuana. Maybe legalization is still the best policy all things considered, but acknowledge the costs.

You would not believe the quotations we have from inside Snap, inc. They know what they are doing to children including addiction and exposure to sextortion. You've got to read the quotations yourself. @TheTimes gives some of the most shocking ones: thetimes.com/uk/london/arti…

In my Basic Political Ideas class, after spending a lot of time in antiquity (Sophocles’s Antigone, Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War, Plato—Euthyphro, Apologia, Crito, Republic—and too days on Judaism and Christianity), I turn to Machiavelli’s Prince. In Prince, Machiavelli

The line dividing good and evil (or good and bad) ran right through Jefferson's views of Christianity. First, Jefferson rejected essential Christian doctrine (the virgin birth, the incarnation, miracles, the deity of Christ, Christ's resurrection from the dead, that Jesus of

CeCe Winans…still incomparable after all these years. Pure soul.

It is now widely accepted among scholars that form critics, like Bultmann, did not understand oral culture and oral transmission at all (certainly not for oral cultures). Sometimes those who don’t know better still parrot dated form critical about narrative development prior to

The irony of the big STEM push (at the expense of everything else) in universities is that you get people spending a lot of money for relatively narrow training in areas it will be rather easy for AI plus automation to eliminate. The vocationalization of higher learning involves