What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of fishes, they're d….

The ... challenge of Christmas is this: justice is what happens when all receive a fair share of God's world and only such distributive justice can e….

Jesus is what God looks like in sandals.

I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world..

My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told….

Jesus told parables. When he wanted to say something really profound about God, he went into parable. I don't find it surprising then that when earli….

It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography a….

I'm talking from the point of view of the States, we tend to assassinate people like Jesus, or if we don't we simply marginalise them. Oprah would ha….

If somebody says, you know, to love your enemies, you could say, 'Well I'm going to love them to death.' We've done that sort of stuff so it can be d….

Jesus' death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate is as sure as anything historical can ever be. For if no follower of Jesus had written anything for ….

Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not ….

Now when you get something like the Apocalypse of John, when this avenging God is going to have blood to the bridle bits for 200 miles, I think that'….

I can be absolutely comfortable with an apocalyptic Jesus because he was simply wrong. As long as he's wrong I don't worry about him, and basically e….