When I wrote a post about Lost Christianities yesterday, a funny anecdote occurred to me and I wondered if I had ever written a post on it. Yup, in 2012! It’s worth repeating. It has to do with Time Magazine (though it starts with Newsweek). This was back when people used to actually get these things in the mail, in the Pleistocene Age, and they were therefore a bit of a bigger deal. Here’s the post, from nine years ago. Read by Petra Ortiz
Bart tells how the Gospel of Peter became verboten among early orthodox church leaders. Read by John Paul Middlesworth.
Dr. Ehrman recounts the story of Esther, the basis of the Jewish festival of Purim. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
In a guest post, filmmaker Patrick Payne introduces his documentary, The Search--Manufacturing Belief, which focuses on the experience of awe, particularly as a religious...