The Pokey Finger of God

As threatened, here is the Levant History Map. This chart shows the rough political boundaries of the Levant over a period of 1200 years. Due to the unique geography of the Levant, we can make a dramatic simplification of our map into a backwards “C” shape that describes the regions from Egypt into Anatolia — [...]

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Although it is still an interesting and entertaining adventure, I feel as if I’ve just completed deconstructing the entire edifice of Christianity and need some time to readjust everything mentally. No doubt, I will continue to learn and adjust my understanding until the day I die, but for now, everything needs to stop moving for [...]

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I shoulda styled my upcoming talk on heresies as having something to do with Da Vinci Code. I suppose I could still do that, but then I’d feel like I’d have to actually read that book. I understand that there’s a whole genre of fiction based around a kind of modernized apocalyptic Sci Fi in [...]

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In the time it took me to build this much, I probably could have found a really nice once somewhere else. I did a modicum of searching, but since I’ve been reading Burton Mack’s New Testament origins book, I’ve been really inspired to see a big map with all these different idealogical interconnections clearly shown. [...]

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Few characters in the Bible loom as large or stand as central throughout the Bible as Moses. If it wasn’t for Moses stories, I don’t know that there would be Jews or Christians or Muslems. The Hebrew Moses is similar in many respects to another hero in the Greek tradition: Heracles. Stories wild and amazing [...]

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A long time ago, before folks had popes or corporate arbiters of faith to consult on matters of the spirit, they were a little more cavalier about seeking personal gnosis. We do ourselves few favors today to assume that the patriarchs and heroes of the Bible would have suffered the same circumscription of their spiritual [...]

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