Peter J. Williams, “Can We Trust the Gospels?”

This is another book I read thanks to its endorsement in Ross Douthat’s Believe.  It’s excellent!  And more good news (so to speak):  The whole book is available online here:  https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64c13fbd86667f166b3c5901/t/6605a833f6068e6a27855728/1711646775902/Can%2BWe%2BTrust%2BThe%2BGospels.pdf The book is fairly recent (2018), short (140 pages of text), and with good footnotes (and both a general and a Scripture index).   There’s … [Read more…]

An Un-Profound Post: Dr. Luke Makes a Diagnosis

In Luke 24:25, Jesus laments those “foolish and slow of heart to believe in all the things the prophets have spoken.”  And Luke, who was apparently a physician and who was of course the one doing the quoting, writes in Greek “bradeis ti cardia” for “slow of heart” — quite close to “bradycardia,” the medical … [Read more…]