“You need to stop clinging to the notion that there’s only one right path. You’ll waste half your time panicking you’re not on it, and the rest backtracking to find it.” – Joe Abercrombie, The Devils (Tor Publishing, 2025), “Reverses.”
- What did Jesus look like? No idea, Robyn Walsh observes. And the Gospels’ silence on the matter is, as she intimates, striking.
- Oh, the misinformation pop-apologists spew! Dan McClellan looks at an example regarding Isa 53.
- If you’re a fan of the Gospel of Thomas, Mark Edward has set up a new site that displays a passage from it that you can refresh to read a new one.
- Steve Wiggins writes, “The Bible doesn’t exist. Well, it does, but it’s an intellectual formulation, not a book.” Check out that post for more!
- Over at my website, Lex Lata wrote a review of Warren Throckmorton’s The Christian Past That Wasn’t. Another volume to add to the pile!
- I think I’ve linked to this before, but the Intertextual Bible is just an amazing resource. I’ve been translating and making notes on the epistle of James and stumbled back upon the Intertextual Bible when looking up potential cross-references.
- Michael Kok discusses ancient Christian “othering” polemics, including the idea that Christians were God’s chosen ones. A lot of it ending up being pure anti-Judaism which, Kok observes, turned into virulent anti-Semitism. And history shows us where that can lead.
- I’ve exceeded my annual goal of 52 books!
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