by Elizabeth Evans Hagan | Jun 24, 2013 | Opinion
Being the religious nerd that I am, and one who likes to keep up with popular cultural expressions of faith, I’ve watched two documentaries of note. Namely, Christiane Amanpour’s ABC News special, “Back to the Beginning,” and the History...
by Robert Parham | Oct 1, 2012 | Opinion
A fragment has caused a global flutter about historic Christianity. The claim that Jesus was married has flashed around the world, saturating newspapers, online sources and TV news shows. It has sparked unbridled speculation about the future of Christianity. The New...
by Martin Marty | Sep 26, 2012 | Opinion
Vying for space and time on the religion-and-media front this week — in competition with presidential campaigns, Muslim extremist riots and almost numberless other stirs – has been the attention given to a tiny piece of papyrus which includes the teeny words...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 20, 2012 | Opinion
The story is spreading across the country now, as local newspapers, websites, and bloggers are picking up early reports, like this New York Times account, of a discovery recently announced by Harvard scholar Karen L. King — a small fragment of ancient papyrus...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 18, 2012 | Opinion
In a class called “Teaching the Bible to Youth and Adults” at Campbell University Divinity School, my students were asked to think about the Bible as a metanarrative for understanding our place in the world. (One of our textbooks is “The Drama of...
