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The Marketing Mecca
This should be required study material in all Marketing curricula, it is a better story even than the Tylenol scandal. It's the story of Christianity in general, and the Catholic Church in particular. Original material … -
Operation Messiah
This book is a hilarious parable of what happened in the formation of the religion called Christianity from the teachings of Jesus, by Peter and Paul, regardless of whether you believe its tenets in the literal sense. It… -
Making a Christian out of Jesus, Stevan Davies
I would like to weave together some thoughts on the process that turned Jesus into a Christian, posthumously. I think it is always a good, refreshing conversation starter to make it clear that Jesus was not a Christian, … -
The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity
It seems this book is sold out in the moment, but one of the things I'm trying to do on this site is to offer mini reviews of the books I've consulted in writing Closing the Circle. The most recent printing of this one w… -
The Jefferson Bible Revisited
Note that I'm speaking here of a specific edition of the so-called Jefferson Bible, namely the one from the Beacon Press, with an introduction by Forrest Church and an afterword from Jaroslav Pelikan. It is certainly one… -
Nonsensical Logic Isn't
The literature about the Thomas gospel, and therefore the conversations on the topic in general, seems to be full of alternative theories about Jesus and Thomas which make no sense to me at all, the most predominant one … -
The Words of the Master
In Gary's books there is reference to the other sayings tradition, which has been known since 1832, and which goes under the name of Q, for the German word for "source," which is Quelle. Gary's teachers refer to that col… -
Thought Experiment with Thomas
While on the one hand the Thomas gospel is simply an odd collection of sayings of Jesus, and hardly a complete presentation of his teachings, it is important to realize that it is truly the most complete document we have… -
Some Scholarly Stuff about Thomas
Occasionally it makes me bristle when Gary or anyone states that my work would be 'scholarly,' in my view it is not, strictly speaking. I find that epithet a bit off-putting in the sense that I neither produce college te… -
Closing the Circle, Squared
At least. And there may be more than two... circles that are being closed, I mean. When picking a name for this book, I quickly noticed that the name that suggested itself to me was not all that original, and that the s…
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The "Historical Jesus" Fallacy Revisited
Recently, I blogged some pieces about the issues t... -
Amazing Talk about Spirituality, Ken Wilber and Fr. Thomas Keating
This is a very interesting segment, from what was... -
Between Scylla and Charybdis
A rose by any other name is still a rose... ? Whi...
