On Teaching the bible in public school
Can you picture Thomas or Jackie saying at the dinner table, “Today we learned that it is very probable, according to the best scholarship available, that many of the sayings attributed to Jesus in the gospels were probably added by scribes a hundred or two hundred years after the gospels were even written.” That sound you hear is many conservative parents dropping their forks and dashing to the phone to call their pastors for some answers.
Short ‘Commercial’ for the Misquoting Jesus Podcast by Bart Ehrman
Christians criticize him (very often unfairly and without reading him seriously) for trying to deconvert people of faith. He does not. He is sincerely a scholar who does not presuppose the infallibility of scripture, but studies it as any historian would study essential tests from any era.