Latest Episodes
Did Jesus Come to Bring Peace?
Prince of Peace? Maybe... Read by Ken Teutsch.
Being Consistently Critical (In the Good Sense)
Thoughts on how a historian has to critically analyse all texts that they encounter, not simply the ones they don't mind analysing critically. Read...
Approaching the New Testament Historically
Is there any easy way to make the distinction between reading the Bible as a document of faith, and from a strictly historical perspective?...
Twelve Days of Christmas Day 12: My Article on Christmas in Newsweek: Part 2
Bart considers how implausible the nativity story might sound to someone who had not grown up knowing it. Read by John Paul Middlesworth.
Twelve Days of Christmas Day 11: My Article on Christmas in Newsweek Part 1
Bart shows that many of the things we believe about the nativity come from the Proto-Gospel of James. Read by John Paul Middlesworth.
Twelve Days of Christmas Day 10: What Can We Know About Jesus’ Birth?
Bart outlines the issues about what people conventionally believe about the Nativity. Read by John Paul Middlesworth .