I hope this becomes a whole genre, entertainment news covering Justin Bieber just lightly paraphrasing Jesus sayings lol.

Did a little literature review on what we know and don’t know about the apostle Bartholomew!

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Almost forgot to post it here, but I put together a sort of literature review on what we do and don’t know about the apostle(s?) Jude (and?) Thaddaeus:

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Wrote up a review of what we know and don’t know about the apostle Philip!

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Devil carries Jesus up to a mountain to tempt him with an earthly kingdom

Missal, France, c. 1470-75

Here we go again

In a slight divergence from my typical reading, I’m currently reading The Faith Healers by James Randi.

I’m fascinated by the idea put forward in the introduction that faith healing often “works” in the sense that diseases go up and down, but people pursue faith healing on the “down.”

Prayer inscribed on a stone found at the capital of the South Arabian Himyarite Kingdom, 5th (?) century:

Starting to intersperse more “pre-Quran” reading in my “post-Bible” reading, with a mind towards beginning my Quran readthrough in a couple months.

Christmas book haul!

No break from the talking animals!