The Infamous Missing Third Fragment of Mark Was a Prank!

The Infamous Missing Third Fragment of Mark Was a Prank!

So, the story began with a debate between Dan Wallace and Bart Ehrman in 2012. Yes. It’s been fourteen years. But anyway. I first covered this in 2012 under Amazing Proofs of Jesus! and updated it in 2017 in an article about how not to be duped by myths like...

Portuguese Translations of Select Articles

Jorge Guerra Pires will be producing occasional translations of my blog articles in Portuguese. So if that’s your primary language or you know anyone who is, bookmark his Medium site “Mente Ateísta” and follow or search his work to catch more. He...

Discussing the New Book Today and Tuesday

Heads up to all my patrons! Tonight I’ll be discussing The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus, which is now shipping in the US (and it should soon beyond, although our dumb trade war might be slowing that), on the Godless Granny show early this evening...

Public Zoom on Inanna and Other Resurrected Gods

Quick notice: I discussed the possible evolution and diffusion of resurrected god ideology in the ancient West, in a live public Zoom. The video (mostly just audio over slides) is now archived here (with the slides here but they are only useful with the...

Welcome to My New Comments System!

I have finally upgraded my dinosaur and failing commenting system on my blog with the shiny new wpDiscuz platform. Unfortunately this might have killed all the old comments subscriptions you may have had running. You can start new subscriptions with the new system...

I’m Now on Bluesky

I’ve been waiting to see which “alternative” social media would be both workable and gain enough traction to out-compete in membership all the others. The vote is in. I have now launched a presence on Bluesky (@richardcarrier.info). You can see the...

I Am Now an Amazon Associate in Ten Countries!

I now have Amazon Affiliate status outside the U.S.! If you usually buy things on a foreign Amazon site, then when you click an Amazon link on my site (any link in any article or on any of my recommendations pages), it should redirect to your nation’s Amazon...

Is This Possible!? Giving an Amazon Sales Event a Try

I don’t imagine this is possible, but I was curious enough to try: if I can generate $1500 in sales through my Amazon Associates link, they will give me a “bonus” of $45. A whole forty-five dollars! In addition to my usual commissions on those sales...

We Have a Home!

Thank you to everyone who donated or brought me paying work to help us make closing costs on a new home. I appreciate everyone’s support. Our timeline was tight but we did it. Our rental home being sold, we had to vacate by end of this month. But we closed on a...

Please Help Get Me Some Fast Work to Buy a Home!

My family has been hit with the need to buy a house six months earlier than our financial plan, because our rental home is being sold. We may have to move within sixty days even. Which means we need cash for closing costs, stat! There are various ways you can help...

Last Call: I’m Moving to Georgia!

One of my girlfriends and I are getting married (yes, we’re both still polyamorous; everyone always asks) and I’m moving to Georgia (yes, the other side of the country; the South; humid town; etcerera). This means this is the last chance for anyone in...

New Video Course on New Testament Studies for Everyone!

I am gradually transitioning my online courses to a high-quality video-and-syllabus format through MythVision. The first to launch is my course on New Testament Studies for Everyone. You can check out a five-minute video describing that course and how it works. And...

Help End Those Annoying Nonce Errors

Some commenters have at random times been unable to post comments on my blog because of a “nonce” error. A “nonce” in this context means a “one-off” token code that helps the site keep track of your activity on a webpage so hackers...