Shroud of Turin: Should You Believe It is Real?

Shroud of Turin Material Included

I’ve been an Episcopalian all my thinking life, and a liberal for most of it. On politics and in our common humanity, I still am — God loves us all, no exceptions. But somewhere along the way, I came around to a more conservative view on theology’s supernatural claims. I want to explain how, because I think...

Celestial lasers. That’s not quite what the more serious proponents say, but it’s not entirely unfair either. In recent years, a strand of Shroud research has moved toward explaining the image as the product of the Resurrection itself — some form of energy, radiation, or unknown physical process emanating from the body at the moment of transformation. It is a hypothesis that ...

There is more to come. This is the first in a series of posts applying a simple but demanding discipline to Shroud research: going back to the beginning, questioning the assumptions we forgot we made, and asking what we might have missed. In future installments I hope to There was every assumptionexamine the S...

Well, I finally finished it. Three hundred and fifty-two pages. TWO EPISCOPALIANS WALK INTO A BAR: A Conversation About Believing is not a book about the Shroud — but there is a chapter on it, and it surfaces at several points throughout. Not argumentatively. More a...