Author Archives: Charles Snow

Real People of Pentecost

We can easily forget that the Bible’s stories involve real people in real places at a real time in history. On Sunday, we celebrate yet another one of those: Pentecost….

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The Conspiracy Theory

Did the Disciples Steal Jesus’s Body from the Tomb?  Any one of us would be hard-pressed to talk about what it’s like to live now without mentioning how conspiracy theories…

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The Truth About Everything

The historian Tom Holland begins his magisterial work Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World with the remarkable note that Rome’s first heated swimming pool was “raised on the…

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Ted Duffey, My Granddaddy

One of the most striking memories of my childhood is one of horror. I was somewhere between five and eight years old. Maybe less, maybe more. It’s one of those…

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Resurrection: The Conspiracy Theory

  Did the Disciples Steal Jesus’s Body from the Tomb? Any one of us would be hard-pressed to talk about what it’s like to live now without mentioning how conspiracy…

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