During this time of the year, the most wonderful time of the year, sometimes I wonder why the entire world is getting excited about Christmas. Is it because Jesus was born one holy night in a little ...

In a church in Southern England one can visit the tomb of a certain Sarah Fletcher who—according to her epitaph—died “a martyr of excessive sensibility.” This high-sounding phrase conceals the ...

Even C. S. Lewis was skeptical of searches for the "historical Jesus." And why not? Even before Albert Schweitzer published his The Quest of the Historical Jesus in 1906, many Christians bemoaned such ...

SYDNEY >> Did a man called Jesus of Nazareth walk the earth? Discussions over whether the figure known as the “Historical Jesus” actually existed primarily reflect disagreements among atheists.

Theological trends in Protestant divinity schools seem to come and go almost before laymen have time to find out what they are all about. Hardly was liberalism enthroned in the seminaries when ...

The Gospels, memory, and oral tradition. Bart Ehrman has written his book Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior for ...

One subject that never dies, and, more significantly, never bores, is the life and times of the first-century Jewish rabbi and martyr Jesus, whose followers founded a religion in his name, or, rather, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In 1998, Lee Strobel, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and a graduate of Yale Law School, ...

In an earlier post, I argued that the historicity of Jesus was doubtful. Some religion scholars questioned one of my sources. Now, new scholarship comes as close as possible to settling the issue.

In 1998, Lee Strobel, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and a graduate of Yale Law School, published “The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus.” Strobel ...