Good Friday If Easter rituals bore you to distraction, you’re not alone. It’s purportedly the holiest holiday season for Christians. And Good Friday is the holiest day. But, since childhood, I always regarded it above all as the first beach holiday of the year. This sermon is in that decidedly secular spirit. NOTE: This recording… Listen.
Jesus Christ
‘Jesus Was Married…Had Two Sons…and Was Never Crucified’?!
No doubt the authors of The Lost Gospel, a new book making the claims asserted in the headline above, expected it to incite sales-generating outrage. Unfortunately, the daily swill of viral tweets, videos, and pictures has so desensitized the entire world that these seemingly outrageous claims about Jesus Christ have not even made it into… Read more.
‘The Bible’- Proselytizing and Perpetuating Racial Stereotypes
My evangelical parents made me not just read The Holy Bible but memorize much of it the way other kids memorized nursery rhymes. This is why I have been so utterly stupefied over the years by the number of self-professed Christians who have never even opened this “good book,” let alone read it. But now… Read more.
Jesus Was Married?!
Claims about Jesus being married are becoming as farcical as claims about Obama being foreign. Granted, this latest claim has more of a patina of credibility because it stems from research conducted by Harvard Divinity School Professor Karen L. King. Except that when one reads beyond the sensational headlines, Professor King’s findings about Jesus being… Read more.