At the very outset let me alert you that even Christian scholars who believe in miracles prefer to speak of the virginal conception rather than the ‘virgin birth’of our Lord. The miracle focus they argue is on ‘becoming pregnant minus …

Critics allege that since there is evidence of a similar idea in another culture then the gospel writers borrowed the idea from that earlier source. This claim with its line of reasoning has been extensively examined in the late 19th …

It hit me forcibly in 2016 and so I prepared a public lecture about it. I sent it to a few groups but no one seemed interested enough even to acknowledge receipt of my email.

Ponder one challenging, indeed embarrassing …

“The Genesis myth was born in an oral tradition… such stories were often filled with much frill and lace and fancy trim…”

Father Sean Major Campbell

A few friends alerted me to Father Sean Major Campbell’s recent column in the …

As I pointed out in another place the documentary hypothesis is standard fare in global theological institutions. In the more conservative centres it is shared as information for awareness, but in the progressive centres it is irrefutable scholarly fact!

How …

Full honest disclosure up front. The best grade in my most recent academic foray into pastoral counselling was C+. My track record though in biblical languages, especially philosophy/critical thinking is quite enviable.

We have been so accustomed to seeing/hearing the …