Is the Christian faith built upon eyewitness testimony, or is it a decades-later invention of people who never saw or heard Jesus? Several years ago, Dan Brown published The Da Vinci Code, a novel whose climax is the revelation that Jesus and Mary Magdalene married and bore children. Despite the fact that The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction, many readers took its claims about Jesus and Mary Magdalene literally. Such readers doubted that the whole truth about Jesus could be found in the New Testament Gospels or the creeds of the Christian church. Not long after The … Continue reading Heard, Seen, Looked at, and Touched (John 1:1-3)