Tag Archives: Gospels

Jews and the Russian Orthodox Church

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 October 2024

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Russia’s Hope Dies With Alexey Navalny

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 February 2024

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Islamic State Introduces the Fifth “Caliph”

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 August 2023

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The Letter of Mara bar Serapion: Implications for the Historical Jesus and Christianity’s Triumph

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 April 2023

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Dating the Gospels

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 June 2021

The dates that the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament were composed has a great impact for Christians, of course, but also for historians, particularly on the matter of whether Jesus ever existed, and really for everybody living in the civilisation this religion has built. Continue reading

Islamic State Bids Farewell to the Caliph

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 November 2019

The 207th edition of Al-Naba, the weekly newsletter of the Islamic State (IS), published on 7 November 2019, devotes its main editorial to Ibrahim al-Badri (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi), the first “Caliph” when the “Caliphate” was declared in June 2014, who was killed on 27 October 2019.

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