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Candida Moss’s “The Myth of Persecution”–A New Book Analysis Series (Part 5: Eusebius of Caesarea Made Up the Myth of Martyrdom and Apostolic Succession…and conservative Christians and the GOP are bad!)

Posted on February 23, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 7 Comments

Here in my final post on Candida Moss’s book, The Myth of Persecution, I will cover Chapter 7: “The Invention of the Persecuted Church,” and Chapter 8: “The Dan...

Book Review/Church History

Candida Moss’s “The Myth of Persecution”–A New Book Analysis Series (Part 4: The Romans Had Legit Reasons, Ya Know! Besides, Christian Martyrs Had Some Violent Language…which is much worse!)

Posted on February 22, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 1 Comment

In what is shaping up to be a five-part book analysis series, here in Part 4 of my look at Candida Moss’s book, The Myth of Persecution, I will be looking at he...

Book Review/Church History

Candida Moss’s “The Myth of Persecution”–A New Book Analysis Series (Part 3: The Early Christians Weren’t Really Persecuted…aka “How Moss is an Imperial Cult Propagandist”)

Posted on February 21, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 2 Comments

This week in Arkansas, we’ve had a bit of a few cold, wintry days, which means school has been canceled. And that means I have a few extra days to cover Candida...

Book Review/Church Fathers/Church History

Candida Moss’s “The Myth of Persecution”–A New Book Analysis Series (Part 2: The Early Christians Just Lifted from Pagan and Jewish Stories to Invent Their Stories)

Posted on February 19, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

Here in Part 2 of my look at Candida Moss’s The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom, I’m going to try to look at chapters 2-...

Book Review/Church History

Candida Moss’s “The Myth of Persecution”–A New Book Analysis Series (Part 1: Christian Martyrdom Stories are Made Up so Christians Can Oppress Others!)

Posted on February 17, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

A few months ago, an online friend of mine asked if I had read The Myth of Persecution by Candida Moss. I had not, although I had heard of the book and actually...

Biblical Studies/Church Fathers/Church History/Creation Evolution Debate/Ken Ham

The Revised Edition of “The Heresy of Ham” is Here

Posted on November 9, 2024 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 8 Comments

***I just found out today that the revised edition of my 2016 book The Heresy of Ham is already available. And so, I wanted to post this quick, initial “p...

Biblical Studies/Church History

Social Media Food Fight in Biblical Studies Between “Inspiring Philosophy” and “Data Over Dogma” (Part 2: Here’s How To Understand the Olivet Discourse)

Posted on September 26, 2024 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 5 Comments

In my last post, I noted a recent social media spat between Michael Jones of Inspiring Philosophy and Dan McClellan of Data Over Dogma. Long story short, they b...

Book Review/Church History/Paul the Apostle/Social and Cultural Issues

Beth Allison Barr’s “Making of Biblical Womanhood”–A Book Analysis Series (Part 3): The Attitudes of Paul and the early/medieval Church towards Women

Posted on August 31, 2024 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 1 Comment

It’s Saturday…I have some time for yet another entry into my book analysis series of Beth Allison Barr’s The Making of Biblical Womanhood. Let’s jump right in. ...

Biblical Studies/Church History/Galatians/Paul the Apostle

A Dive into Galatians (Part 2: Galatians 1:1-2:14)

Posted on June 28, 2024 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 2 Comments

The Greeting (1:1-5)If you are like me (or like me when I was in high school), if and when you ever read one of Paul’s letters, you tend to skim through those i...

Church Fathers/Church History/Creation Evolution Debate

I Was Interviewed to Talk a Little Bit About Irenaeus! Enjoy the most interesting hour of your week!

Posted on January 27, 2023 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 2 Comments

Hi Everyone. As the title says, a few weeks ago I was interviewed to talk a bit about the early Church Father, Irenaeus. In particular, the talk is in regard to...

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