No One Believes That the God of the Bible Exists Anymore

[Cross-posted from Exploring Our Matrix] The title of this post is not a complaint; it is merely an observation. No one confronts the representatives of another tradition with a contest to see which o...

The Veil That Prevents Fundamentalists from Understanding the Bible

I regularly have Christian fundamentalists tell me that people who do not approach the Bible with faith cannot understand it. That is of course nonsense, although I am pretty sure that at some point i...

Fringe Faith

I resonate with the identity of Religion at the Margins – the fringe, the heretics, the outliers. And I have a penchant to like underdog views, and underdog composers in music. If I was more int...

A Reminder: Jesus Didn’t Say “Bully Your Enemies”

There’s an old story that tells of a man who went to a Christian counsellor about his marriage. When it was emphasized to him that the Bible tells husbands to love their wives, the man replied ...

Review of Dale Allison, Constructing Jesus

I am delighted to have had the opportunity to read an advance copy of Dale Allison’s forthcoming book, Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2010),...

Consensus and Comfort: How Scholarship Works

One characteristic that conservative Christians and mythicists share is that those who espouse these views seem prone to taking comfort in finding some lone scholar who agrees with them. Since I have ...

Religion at the Margins

Postcards and Postscripts from the Periphery of Faith

Author: James McGrath

No One Believes That the God of the Bible Exists Anymore

The Veil That Prevents Fundamentalists from Understanding the Bible

Fringe Faith

A Reminder: Jesus Didn’t Say “Bully Your Enemies”

Review of Dale Allison, Constructing Jesus

Consensus and Comfort: How Scholarship Works