Who was Barabbas? A rebel charged with murder, freed instead of Jesus. In some ancient copies of Matthew his first name is Jesus too. Here is what we know.
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Who Was Mary Magdalene? The Bible Never Calls Her a Prostitute
Who was Mary Magdalene? The Bible never calls her a prostitute – a sermon in 591 did. The Gospels record a healed woman who funded Jesus and saw him first.
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The Fruit Fly Brain Map Shows Small Was Never Simple
The fruit fly brain is now mapped along with its nerve cord: 166,000+ neurons and 125 million connections. What the map found, and what it still cannot show.
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The Devil’s Arrows Were Hauled 18 km on Purpose. Nobody Remembers Why.
The Devil’s Arrows were hauled 18 km on purpose around 4,000 years ago. Science now knows where the stones came from. The reason was lost, so a legend moved in.
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Is It a Sin to Be Proud of Yourself? Paul Says Prove It
Is it a sin to be proud of yourself? Galatians 6:4 tells you to test your own work and then take satisfaction in it. One dropped word changes the whole verse.
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Is It a Sin to Listen to Secular Music? What Paul Quoted
Is it a sin to listen to secular music? Paul quoted pagan poets three times in the New Testament, including lines first written about Zeus, and never apologized.
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Are Personality Tests Biblical? What the Bible Does Instead
Are personality tests biblical? Scripture never assigns anyone a type. It hands out new names instead — and Gideon shows what no test result can ever measure.
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How to Read the Bible: It’s a Library, Not a Manual
How to read the Bible without bouncing off it: it is a library of 66 books in different genres, and reading a poem like a manual is why it breaks on you.
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Ancient Acoustics: Rooms That Change a Human Voice
Ancient acoustics research can rebuild rooms nobody has entered in millennia. What the measurements really show about a human voice is stranger than the myth.
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Did Jesus Praise the Widow’s Mite? Read the Verse Before
Did Jesus praise the widow’s mite? Most sermons start at verse 41. Two verses earlier, Jesus accused the religious leaders of devouring widows’ houses.