Loading...I have a special request to make of all members of the blog. It won’t cost you a dime, but could help bring in thousands. It involves a bit of participation on your end that should be simple but fruitful. Can you help? Here’s the deal.
Those of us who produce the blog (Jen, the whole team of volunteers, and I) are very excited that we are moving into its next phase. The blog has done amazing things till now, as you know: over $3 million raised over its lifetime, $580,000 just this past year. Greater things are ahead, as it just gets better and better.
We are confident of that because, as you may also know, we have hired an impressive development team, DesignHammer, to create a new, better, and more creative Blog platform that will allow us to accomplish a lot more and a lot more efficiently.
The basics of the blog will be the same – I’ll post 5-6 times a week, members at the silver, gold, or platinum levels will be able to comment on posts, I will address every question I get, etc.
But the blog will be easier to use with better options for you to pursue your interests in all that we do here; it will provide better and easier access to all the archives (thirteen years of posts!), to see what threads of posts have appeared (say you want to read all the posts on Mary Magdalene, or biblical views of the afterlife, or Paul’s letters, or the teachings of Jesus), to interact with other blog members more, and so on.
We want this new blog platform to meet your interests. For it to be a HUGE success we need your feedback on your blog experience and our suggestions about how to expand and improve what we already have.
To that end, we would LOVE for you to fill out the survey that is available from the link below. If we know what you want, need, wish, and desire (at least as it relates to the blog and what we do on it!) we can work to structure it in and set it up.
So, would you be willing to help? Kudos if you can! More than that, an incentive for your upcoming kudos. Everyone who fills out the survey will be welcome to a special remote webinar (for survey-participating blog members only!) on July 13, 2025, called:
What I’ve Learned After 4,000 Blog Posts: Why the Bible Still Surprises Me.
The blog is one of the most significant joys and commitments of my mortal existence. I very much want to make it as good as it can be. Give me a hand by filling out the survey, and I will be eternally in your debt!
You’ve made just a great blog, and probably for many like me,,,worth cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble; cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as slaves.
For me, you don’t need to change it much!
Thanks!
Thanks!
What is a book you have written that tells us how we know the four gospels are anonymous or are written by their namesakes? If you haven’t written a book on that yet, have you written a blog post on it?
I’ve talked about it in a number of my books, including Forged (in ch. 7)