I have thought for as long as I can recall that Plato correctly argues that ideas pre-exist and outlive us, that the only reason we may recognize instances of, say, love and justice, is that their existence is boundless, tenacious, and that they si

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     A reason people do not realize that Judaism and Christianity are not and cannot be theologically compatible (let alone "merged" as some have suggested) is because they know that Jesus' friends and followers were Jews, t

This is a response to an issue raised yesterday in my post-thread.

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     My readers know that I admire the Jewish itinerant performance artist whom scholars identify as Jesus, the first-century Galilean agitator for Hebrew prophetic social justice demands in

     I've shared here how some historians articulate three historical stages of European anti-Semitism, covering the past 1700 years from the time Christianity became antagonistic and then lethal to Jews; that is, from the point when Ro

     You know that among my reading and teaching, as well as writing interests has been the remarkable scholarship of the men and women in what has come to be known as Historical-Jesus Research. These historians have used traditional historiography, along with economic and anthrop

 of course, of course    

     The House votes now for the 37th time on a measure to repeal the Affordable Care Act because new members, says the Speaker, haven't had a chance to vote to ditch it and they'd really like to go on

          With Minnesota, yesterday, added to the roll of states affirming marriage equality (twelve now plus the District), and with the Court unlikely, next month, to hold for a sweeping, fifty-state mandate, we are, for a time and as to

          While I get why Mr. Tarantino lost Best Picture to Mr. Afleck, and while I enjoyed "Argo" (and some other nominees), "Django Unchained" is simply a better film, more intelligent, historically ironic, written and acted w

          The numbers of near-opportunities to have ended the ten-year rape-in-chains, suffering-in-squalor of Amanda Berry (who now has a six-year-old daughter born imprisoned) Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight...th