The upcoming Episode 38 will be the final episode of Born in the Second Century for the foreseeable future, as the show will go into an indefinite hiatus. I've been considering this decision for th...
2024-03-16 02:15:50 +0000 UTC View Post
In the Road to BSC segment in the latest Bonus Show, I mentioned my old Marcionite Scriptures website and I also said that I would post the New Testament dating timeline from my Defender of Peace b...
2024-01-31 03:35:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the January 2024 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which we complete the Road to Born in the Second Century as well as the review of the book Churchfails. In the C...
2024-01-31 02:50:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Currently I'm working on Churchfails Part 2, but I also began uploading full BSC episodes to the YouTube channel at the attached link. If you are interested in YouTube, and watching or listening to...
2024-01-20 02:12:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the December 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which we begin reviewing the infamous book "Churchfails."
This episode is in MP3 format.
2024-01-04 00:39:38 +0000 UTC View PostChris, a called Apostle by God's Grace, to the Community of Readers: greetings.
I will be turning off billing for the 01/01/24 and 02/01/24 cycles, which means that 2 forthcoming Bonus Shows ...
2023-12-30 03:02:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the November 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which we examine the Messianic Secret, and travel further along the Road to BSC.
This episode is in MP3 f...
2023-12-02 02:05:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the October 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, an exploration of the Secret Gospel of Mark, and the arguments for and against its authenticity.
Note: The ho...
2023-10-24 02:10:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the September 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, a full commentary on Episode 20 of Born in the Second Century (the Apologetics Parody).
In going through Ep...
2023-10-10 02:24:21 +0000 UTC View PostFirst, thank you very much to all the new members.
I just finished recording Episode 33; it's a fairly long one that looks to be about 2:10 or 2:15 or so in total. Quitting smoking/vaping on ...
2023-10-01 03:17:43 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for the lateness of this. I actually felt mostly normal today, which is good, so I completed Version 1 of the Gospel of John reconstruction.
I've done about 20 - 30 mock-ups of comm...
2023-09-04 20:15:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the August 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, on the Synoptic Problem.
The host's reasons for accepting the Two-Source Hypothesis and the Q Source are discu...
2023-09-02 01:12:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the July 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, which is the first Q&A (Questions and Answers) installment.
Listener questions include: potential threats to...
2023-08-01 04:22:49 +0000 UTC View PostI've just finished the editing of the July Bonus Show (Q&A) and sent it for mastering; I expect to get it back tomorrow and to upload the show then. I apologize for the delay which was due to i...
2023-08-01 01:12:48 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the questions received for the Q&A Show was about the Q hypothesis. I used that as motivation to finish a project that I've been putting off for some time, which is to create an annotate...
2023-07-09 21:20:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the June 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which the host presents an analysis of the Birth Narrative in Matthew's Gospel.
The episode presents, as a st...
2023-06-22 00:21:55 +0000 UTC View PostI'm sharing a new document for Patrons, but before going into that I wanted to mention that listeners Todd, Dan, and others have mentioned the possibility of a Q&A Bonus Show. It seems like a g...
2023-06-07 22:19:40 +0000 UTC View PostFor June of 2023:
The Main Episode will be on JUSTIN MARTYR'S ALLEGED USE OF THE GOSPELS.
The Bonus Show will be on MATTHEW'S BIRTH NARRATIVE, AND ROAD TO BSC PART 3 OF 4.
Bonus M...
2023-06-01 02:58:56 +0000 UTC View PostIn addition to the monthly Bonus Shows, I wanted to also start sharing more of my show preparation materials, and so over time I'll be posting more of my so-called "Working Copies," which, for the ...
2023-05-30 23:58:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the May 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which the host risks an attempt at a close reading of Mark Chapter One.
The episode begins with observations a...
2023-05-30 02:01:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the April 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which the host continues the Road to Born in the Second Century. In this installment the host's ill-fated foray in...
2023-04-30 17:59:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Presenting the March 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which the host presents a new recurring segment: The Road to Born in the Second Century, in which the background o...
2023-03-29 22:02:28 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I do plan to put out bonus shows in January, I wanted to thank you for bearing with me over the past few months by pausing payments through March 1, 2023. This doesn't mean t...
2022-12-23 17:54:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The next "non-gospel" source presented by Bart Ehrman in "Did Jesus Exist" is the infamous Papias. He considers Papias an independent source for the Historical Jesus because Papias does not appear ...
2022-10-31 01:53:13 +0000 UTC View PostA brief update on the planned shows over the next two weeks or so.
This week I'll be doing the Patreon show for the next installment of the Ehrman series. It's about Papias, but Bart Ehrman r...
2022-10-25 06:15:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The response to Bart Ehrman's "Did Jesus Exist?" continues, with an overview of his next "non-gospel" source for Jesus: the gigantic, fraudulent imposition knows as the First Letter of Clement.
... 2022-10-02 16:31:44 +0000 UTC View Post
In this bonus show, we continue our miniseries on Bart Ehrman's "Did Jesus Exist?" with today's focus being the (fake) letters of Ignatius. To what extent can these monstrous fabrications be consid...
2022-08-30 01:56:33 +0000 UTC View Post
In this bonus show we begin a new recurring miniseries on the Opening Readings of the Born in the Second Century episodes. Here, the readings for Episodes 1 through 4 are revisited and illuminated....
2022-08-07 01:08:42 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to thank everyone for their patience as we resume our schedule after a hectic month. This week, I'll be recording Episode 25 as well as Bonus Show 11. My plan is to release these by the en...
2022-07-25 21:51:23 +0000 UTC View Post
There's no main episode this month, but the bonus shows continue as host Chris Palmero progresses further into Bart Ehrman's "Did Jesus Exist." In this installment, Ehrman covers the gospels as sou...
2022-06-28 17:31:19 +0000 UTC View Post