Serene Musings

With North Carolina's passage of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, passions have run very high very fast, and I am certain...

Outside of his death and resurrection, there is perhaps no story from the life of Jesus as well known and widely imagined as his bi...

The Jesus Dynasty is a book written a few years ago by religious scholar James D. Tabor.  Tabor, according to his website, is the head of th...

Jesus was a carpenter, right?   It’s one of the most widely known “facts” about Jesus’ life prior to his ministry.   In many ways, it is the...

INTRODUCTION I’m often amazed at how disinterested most Christians seem to be on the question of who wrote the Bible.  This perplexes me be...

After being asked a few months back about my views on how paganism may have influenced Christianity, I have spent quite a bit of time attemp...

From Paul's letter to the Romans, circa 58 C.E., chapter 7, verse 6: But now we are discharged from the Law, dead to that which held u...

In Part I of this series, we saw that Christian tradition has long rejected the need for Christians to follow Old Testament Law. This trad...

One of the oldest traditions in Christianity is the belief that Jewish laws and customs are not binding upon followers of Christ. When Jesu...

Perhaps no other textual issue in Christian scholarship has been discussed and debated more over the years than the sources used by the writ...