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The Bible Disagrees with Itself on the "End Times"

Seven Different Views of the End Times (All from the New Testament)

Jun 16 • Joe Boyd

How Long Does It Take to Get Rid of the Guilt?

This is my response to a reader's question as part of my AMA series.

Jun 15 • Joe Boyd

What’s Actually in the Book of Enoch?

The Book of Enoch, Part Four: A Reader’s Guide to One of the Most Influential Books Outside the Bible

Jun 14 • Joe Boyd

God Didn't Need Jesus to Die to Love You

If nearly every trusted adult in your life told you from childhood that God had to send his only son to be killed before he could forgive you...that's…

Jun 12 • Joe Boyd

Important Update on My Upcoming Book

Please read if you preordered De-Vangelical.

Jun 12 • Joe Boyd

That Anti-Gay Verse in Jude? It's Really About Sex with Angels and the Book of Enoch.

The Book of Enoch, Part Three - The Watchers

Jun 9 • Joe Boyd

To the Commenter Who Said I Lost My Salvation for my Liberal Beliefs...

What Did Jesus Actually Say You Have to Do to Be Saved?

Jun 8 • Joe Boyd

5 Mindshifts to Rescue the Bible from Fundamentalists

Here are five mindshifts that helped me let go of the Bible I was taught—and make peace with the one that actually exists.

Jun 7 • Joe Boyd

Homosexuality Is an Abomination? What Christians Get Wrong about Leviticus 18:22

A deep dive into the most popular Bible verse "condemning homosexuality." And why virtually nobody who quotes it has actually studied it.

Jun 5 • Joe Boyd

Enoch: The Man Who Never Died

The Book of Enoch, Part Two

Jun 4 • Joe Boyd

The Women Who Built the Early Church and the Christian Faith

There is no Christianity as we know it without the early female leaders in the early church.

Jun 1 • Joe Boyd

The World Jesus Inherited: The Forgotten World Between the Testaments

The Book of Enoch Series - Part One

May 29 • Joe Boyd