Tag: faith
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The Real Mary: A First-Century Jewish Mother, Not a Silent Icon

This is a long-awaited week for many of us who are passionate about Christian origins and history. The venerable and recently “retired” Dr. James Tabor’s book on the mother of Jesus is FINALLY being released. The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus will be released in the US on September 30. Just like her…
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Alien Jesus?

You’ve probably seen these guys (and girls) online. They are sometimes assembled into small congregations and even find some success in the weirder parts of the USA (Los Angeles.) They are driven by the belief in both Christianity AND Extra-Terrestrials and have merged them into one fascinating new belief system; Jesus was an alien.
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The Gospel Of Thomas…. Doubt-Free

In 1945 one of the greatest historical finds ever emerged in Nag Hammadi, Egypt. Dozens of early Christian texts suddenly came to the awareness of the western world. Called the Nag Hammadi Library, it was a collection of a 52 mainly gnostic texts along with Plato’s Republic and The Corpus Hermeticum. One theory is that…
