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Enjoy posts about a variety of subjects, all designed to help you look at religion, the Bible, and early Christian texts in a new way.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-04-13T21:32:01-04:00April 14th, 2021|Tags: Eternal Life, Letter of Peter to Philip|
"This ancient text sheds light on the link between the stark limitations of mortality and the possibilities of eternal life."
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2021-03-24T06:43:07-04:00March 24th, 2021|Tags: Christian Canon, Church, Noncanonical Texts, Religion|
"I hope that this blogpost signals to you the open-ended ways life comes toward us in the same way an open-ended Canon could help us be more alive. "
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2021-03-08T00:53:12-05:00March 8th, 2021|Tags: Gender Issues, Jesus, Sophia|
"One of the most intense controversies emerged when some of us pointed out that in the biblical books of Matthew and Luke, Jesus himself talked about Sophia in intimate and positive ways."
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-02-08T02:16:11-05:00February 10th, 2021|Tags: Gospel of Truth, Nag Hammadi|
"If the Gospel of Truth is making a correct diagnosis of the cycles of truth and error, its therapeutic remedy is worth pondering."
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2021-01-21T02:26:09-05:00January 21st, 2021|Tags: Extracanonical Texts, Gospel of Peter, Paul, Resurrection|
"A number of scholars suggest that the Gospel of Peter’s story may have been one of the earliest if not the earliest. It is time to take this possibility seriously."
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-01-25T04:19:03-05:00January 14th, 2021|Tags: Extracanonical Texts, Nag Hammadi, The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles, Violence|
"Discovering the source of their hope, the disciples/apostles learn that their treasure is actually the discovery of their purpose in life."
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2021-01-25T04:19:15-05:00December 28th, 2020|Tags: Bible, Church, Gospel of John, Gospels|
"The Gospel of John is more like a like a tender poem about God. No, that’s not quite right. It’s a tender poem in God. Like being in an ocean of God."
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-01-25T04:19:27-05:00December 10th, 2020|Tags: Ally Kateusz, Early Christian Art, Early Jesus Followers, Gender Issues, Women|
Back to the gospels before Constantine, we have three men and three women. And the women are all the same size as Jesus... It’s really quite striking.
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2021-01-25T04:19:36-05:00November 23rd, 2020|Tags: Extracanonical Texts, Gender Issues, Gospel of Mary, Jesus, Mary Magdalene|
"If I’m right that it is a really good, short book from 1800 years ago, then you may want to just mull over what some parts of it mean to you."
By James F. McGrath, PhD|2021-02-07T23:10:07-05:00November 12th, 2020|Tags: 1 Timothy, Bible, Egalitarianism, Gender Issues, Women|
"[The text] prohibited women from teaching only in that time because it was important that they first learn and only then begin to teach."
