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Cody Parks is a UPS driver from Wilkes County, in rural western North Carolina. Last month, he came to Chapel Hill to hear the last lecture by a man who studies small fragments of ancient Greek ...

On God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question–Why We Suffer, by Bart D. Ehrman. If we lacked free will, Gilbert Chesterton liked to say, there is no point in thanking ...

We have engaged with Bart Ehrman in past articles. He has been one of the most prolific critics of Christianity over the last 20 years, and we have considered several of his arguments when looking at ...

It’s usually clear to Bart Ehrman who loves him and who hates him. Evangelical Christians have been raking Ehrman over the coals for years for his rejection of biblical inerrancy—and atheists and ...