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Christians picked December 25 half a century before Roman pagans did.

WE THOUGHT PAGANS BEAT JESUS TO CHRISTMAS. That’s what historians have taught us: Christians started celebrating Christmas because Romans were already throwing a party to the sun God Sol on December 25. It looks like historians got that wrong. Christians, it seems, beat Romans to the party by half a century or more. That’s the revelation of a recent translation of an ancient passage by a…

I just created 50 Bible maps for Isaiah, to accompany the new Casual English Bible paraphrase of the book.

YESTERDAY I FINISHED CREATING 50 BIBLE MAPS FOR ISAIAH. And I wrapped up my first pass at the paraphrase of Isaiah. All 66 chapters. Some beautiful. Some disgusting. I don’t mean to seem disrespectful toward the prophet or the Bible, but how else to describe the book’s last verse: The LORD says, “People will go to the trash heap To look at corpses of those who rebelled. Forever, the worms will…

THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT that will cost me. I'm going to give away a Bible map mounted on canvas to someone selected by one of my grandchildren who can't read, but who can circle a random name with a crayon.

THIS IS A BIBLE MAP EXPERIMENT that will cost me. In the ballpark of $100. I’m going to give away a Bible map mounted on canvas to someone selected by one of my grandchildren who can’t read, but who can circle a random name with a crayon. This experiment will also give me clues about which maps you folks like best. You see, I don’t know what map I’m giving away yet. One of you will be selecting…