John D. Spalding is a contributing editor at BustedHalo and is the founder and editor of SoMAreview.com. He is writing a book about daily life in first-century Palestine.
Why The First Christmas is not like any Nativity story you've ever heard before
Two years ago, biblical scholars John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg published The Last Week, a fascinating day-by-day account, based on Mark's gospel, of how Jesus spent ...
The author of The Year of Living Biblically talks about what it's like to live by "The Book"
Countless believers pride themselves on leading Bible-based lives, but let's face it: there's a big difference between donating to the Christian Children's ...
An interview with the media visionary behind "Faces of Faith"
As both the founder of an online religion blog and a contributor to BustedHalo and other web-based religious news sites like Beliefnet, The Revealer and KillingtheBuddha ...
Yesterday I was stalked by Jane Austen. Every corner I turned at my local bookstore, there she was—her name emblazoned across titles in the New Fiction and New Non-Fiction ...
Why it would be a sin not to include dinosaurs in illustrated children’s Bibles.
The other night I was reading Zondervan’s Beginner's Bible: Timeless Children's Stories to my four-year-old twins when I came to a disturbing realization. Though the children’s Bible includes hundreds of illustrations ...
The Rev. Jerry Falwell—founder of the Moral Majority and the leader of the religious right in the '80s—died Tuesday after he was discovered unconscious in his office. We ...
