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This rigorous, exhaustive inquiry demonstrates that the traditional Christian understanding of Jesus of Nazareth is not the product of mythological accretion, wishful thinking, or blind faith. Rather, it is the most coherent synthesis of historical, forensic, and philosophical data available. The cumulative case establishes an unbroken progression of historical certainty. ( direct link )

Hidden in the Cliffs of Mustang: The Ancient Himalayan Hermitage That Seems to Defy the Mountains High in the dramatic landscapes of Mustang, Nepal, where deep valleys cut through the rain-shadow of the Himalayas and ancient trade routes once connected Tibet with the Indian subcontinent, Buddhist monasteries, meditation sites, and cliffside religious structures preserve evidence of centuries of H…

Rowan Williams was the Church of England’s leading bishop for 10 years until 2012

Researchers interviewed almost 30 religious leaders across all six major religious faiths in the UK to find out how AI was affecting them.

Religion & Public Life A weekly digest of the Center’s latest research on religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world · Subscribe ↗ Media mentions This secular congressman is urging Democrats to fight Christian nationalism Aug. 19 – The Washington Post * Senate hopeful Talarico touts his faith. Texas Republicans call it blasphemy […]

Eve was fooled by the serpent, but why did Adam knowingly choose to eat the forbidden fruit? In Why would Paul consider Eve sinned before Adam? - Biblical Hermeneutics Stack Exchange, I speculated ...

Religion & Public Life A weekly digest of the Center’s latest research on religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world · Subscribe ↗ Media mentions A pope from Chicago was elected. The White Sox were resurrectedAug. 7 – The New York Times * ‘A gift from heaven’: Pope Leo prepares for warm Peru […]

This paper develops a comparative evidential challenge to a specific target: a perfectly loving, communicatively capable personal God who intends every capable, nonresistant person to have a conscious relationship with God and who authorizes a determinate religious message for that purpose. The challenge is not that a divine being must appear as one more object in the world, that sacred texts can…

In his book, African Religions and Philosophy , Professor John S. Mbiti boldly affirms that in Africa people die only in body and not in spirit. In making such a generalized claim about Africans and their notions of death and the afterlife Mbiti appears to suggest the implication that in Africa people die only to continue living, everything being equal, as ancestors or members of the living-dead.…