There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when you do that.

Whether or not you believe that after three days of being dead and entombed, Jesus got up and walked out of his own accord, what you cannot argue about is the fervent belief of the followers that this happened.

The Muslim community is completely fractured - it doesn't really exist anymore; the only place it does exist is online.

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian.

The more I started studying the historical Jesus, the man who lived 2,000 years ago... the more I started to realize that there was this chasm between the historical Jesus and the Jesus that I had been taught about in church.