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Simon Gathercole on the Gospel of Judas and the Gospel of Thomas

At Between Two Worlds, Andy Naselli interviews Simon Gathercole on the Gospel of Judas and the Gospel of Thomas. Gathercole is a New Testament lecturer at the University of Cambridge and is currently...

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Archaeology and the New Testament

Peter S. Williams, author of A Sceptic’s Guide to Atheism: God is Not Dead (Paternoster, 2009), has written a helpful introductory article at BeThinking.org on the discoveries in archaeology and the...

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Gandhi: Saint or Sinner?

When people talk of great spiritual leaders, Gandhi and Jesus are often mentioned in the same breath. Jesus was a great man with great teachings, whose values and actions positively influenced Western...

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Debunking the Zeitgeist Movie

Jonathan McLatchie addresses the internet documentary’s claim that Jesus is a mythological amalgamation of ancient pagan deities.

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Sources for Nero and the Reliability of the Gospels

The following post has been written by Mark Keown, New Testament lecturer at Laidlaw College and author of What’s God Up To On Planet Earth?. He has kindly given us permission to reprint it here. I...

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Five Reasons To Study Church History

James Detrich: 1. It helps us to provide a more reasonable account of what we believe. 2. It reminds us of the community of faith. 3. It helps us to understand which beliefs are central to our faith....

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Why Did Scientific Inquiry Fail in the Arabic World?

By the thirteenth century, Arabic science was the most advanced in the world. Advances in optics, astronomy, medicine, architecture, and more had brought a golden age of science and technology. Today,...

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Jesus the Game Changer 1 of 10: JESUS

This is the first post in a series of posts running parallel to weekly screening of the series Jesus the Game Changer on Shine TV. Who has had the greatest impact on history? Who is the most important...

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Jesus the Game Changer 9 of 10: WEALTH

This is the ninth post in a series of posts running parallel to a weekly screening of the series Jesus the Game Changer on Shine TV. WEALTH A Curse and Blessing Wealth is a curse and a blessing, it...

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