Who the rock is. Where the rock came from. What the rock did. What the rock is now.

Daniel 2:34-35. You watched until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and broke them in pieces. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were all broken in pieces and became like chaff. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

The tradition that has read this passage for two...    see more >>

…AND the Lord Jesus Christ

What the opening sentence of James reveals about where the brother of Yeshua was operating from, and what it means for the people he was writing to.

Those who have followed this body of work know that we have spent considerable time examining the pseudepigraphical (false authorship, documents written in the name of an apostle by a later writer) question in the New Testament. That research has identified insertions and interlopers that are pervasive in the apostolic writings, places where the voice, vocabulary, and theological register shift...    see more >>

How one man, one letter, one opening sentence, and one word produced every denomination that has ever existed, and the devastating irony of what they kept
and what they discarded.

If you want to understand forty-six thousand denominations, where they came from, why they keep multiplying, what structural feature of the post-cross testimony guaranteed that separation would be the permanent condition of institutional Christianity, you do not need to trace the history of every council, every schism, every reformation, every split. You need to go back to one man. One letter....    see more >>