With this post I want to take a brief break from what I’ve been doing on the blog to assess how it’s going.   A couple of weeks ago now I decided to start posting on my current book project, How Jesus Became God.   My idea was that this would allow me to “think through” some issues out loud, as it were, as I put thoughts on screen, and it would allow people on the blog to see ...

Now that we’ve seen a couple of posts by Jeff Siker – taking a position quite different from my own on a question of broad importance – and some of the comments that have come back on it, and his reply at length to one of them, I think we are in a position to sit back and see how that “worked” for the blog.   My sense is that it worked very well.  If you think otherwise, please let ...

    I have received a number of suggestions about how to improve this blog, and so far the one I like best is for me to have an occasional guest make a contribution that people could interact with — that is, someone who is, like me, a scholar of NT or early Christianity who has a different thing or two to say.  I think it’s a great idea.   And I’m going to implement it for the first time tomorrow.

    Here ...