It's the idea from The Tipping Point, that a message, or a product, has a kind of stickiness to it…
I decided to do some number crunching myself. We know from Gal 1:18-19 that James, the brother of Jesus, had…
Dr. Ehrman, in Galatians 2:6, Paul says the Jerusalem apostles "added nothing to his message". By this, does Paul mean:…
So, Pilate feared an Israeli uprising that might attempt to free Israel from Roman rule the way the exodus allegedly…
Hello, Bart! What do you think Jesus' view of the church was? Did he want to create one? What is…
I think the hardest to quantify, but possibly most important thing that lead to Christianity's rise is the mimetic or…
I have to believe that there was considerable, if not exponential, growth in the Jesus movement in the 2-3 years…
Interesting parallel with the Mormon (LDS) church. It took 117 years (until 1947) to grow to one million members, and…
Bart, citing Moss’s 2012 trade book without any qualifier is, I must say, quite irresponsible. You are well aware of…
Welcome aboard Jen. I look forward to the growth of the blog. barrelmonkey aka Bill Bobbitt, MBI class of 1975