“There’s nothing we agnostics can’t do as long as we really don’t know whether we believe in anything or not.”…
On New Interview on Agnosticism
"fundamental transformation in the moral conscience of the West.:" "My argument is that the impulse to help strangers in need…
On How I Begin My Book on Jesus, Ethics, and Altruism
Hi Bart, did you see my last post? Here it is again: Hi Bart, hope you and Sarah are well.…
On The Life and Message of Paul
Do you think it would be accurate to cast this in conservative/progressive terms and say that, ironically, progressive forces in…
On Judaism 200 Years Before Jesus: The Maccabean Revolt
Helividius Priscus at the end of the post made my day. I decided: I'm going to face my boss this…
On How Not To Be Bothered When Bad Things Happen: The Stoics
Dr. Ehrman, I see elements of stoicism in Ecclesiastes. Or is it the other way around? Did one influence the…
On How to be Content with Life Even When It’s Rotten: The Stoic View
Spending most of my life in the LDS (Mormon) Church, at the top of the list of truth claims of…
On Why Would Christian Authors Write Forgeries?
Suppose we look half a millennium earlier and 1500 miles farther east to history’s other great sage, Siddhartha Gautama, aka…
On The Problem of Suffering? So What’s the Problem?
Hi Bart. I have 3 questions as I'm still reading your book: the heaven and hell and I want to…
On How to be Content with Life Even When It’s Rotten: The Stoic View
A while ago I read about the alternate meaning of logos as reason. Substituting the word reason in the translation…
On How Not To Be Bothered When Bad Things Happen: The Stoics