As many of our regular readers probably know, I used to be a participant in what members often refer to as “the atheist community.” I’m not going to go over the story of how I migrated out of that crowd – if you are curious I have written about this extensively elsewhere – but I did think to highlight one of the more interesting public intellectuals I came across due to my interest in ontological questions. Unlike the infamous three-headed hydra of New Atheism – Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens – Bart D. Ehrman comes from a background of both deep Read more