Latest Episodes

Was Joseph the Actual Father of Jesus? Announcing a Special Online Christmas Course
Bart offers a two-part course that suggests the virgin birth of Jesus was not the prevailing view among the earliest Christians. Read by John...

Do you Want to Take the Final Exam for My Course: "Birth of Christianity"?
Read by Sharon Roberts.

How Paul's Own Writings Show the Earliest Church Was Split Over "Orthodoxy" and "Heresy"
Read by Sharon Roberts.

How the Canon Itself Tames the Diversity of the New Testament
Read by Sharon Roberts.

But Your Own Teacher, Bruce Metzger, Didn't Think That!
Read by Ken Teutsch.

Wasn't Early Christianity Basically Unified? Why Fret About Occasional Diversity?
Bart judges how well Bauer's thesis holds up in light of manuscript discoveries since the 1930s. Read by John Paul Middlesworth.