Podcasts about Pagels

With the recent death of Pope Francis and the election of Leo XIV, feels like a good time to talk with best-selling author ELAINE PAGELS about her new book, MIRACLES AND WONDER: The Historical Mystery of Jesus. In it, she asks: Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and, if so, what did they mean? And finally, how did a poor young Jewish man and failed Messiah inspire a religion that has persisted and grown for 2000 years? Professor Emeritus of Religion at Princeton, Pagels has won Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Fellowships, as well as the National Book Award. You can learn more at elaine-pagels.com.Elaine Pagels-04-23-2025-Transcript 

Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus (Doubleday, 2025) she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave—no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus (Doubleday, 2025) she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave—no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus (Doubleday, 2025) she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave—no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus (Doubleday, 2025) she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave—no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus (Doubleday, 2025) she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave—no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus (Doubleday, 2025) she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave—no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/van-leer-institute

Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus (Doubleday, 2025) she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave—no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus (Doubleday, 2025) she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave—no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies

Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus (Doubleday, 2025) she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave—no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

For decades, Elaine Pagels's work has been changing the historical landscape of Christian religion. She's also changed the way many people, including myself, see the world. Pagels is a religion professor at Princeton University, and the author of seminal, award-winning books like The Gnostic Gospels, and her newest, Miracles and Wonder. We talked about the surprising things she's learned about Jesus and his followers; what his most radical teaching was; and why Jesus, this essentially unlikely traveling rabbi, emerged as the figure he did in our culture. And why this all still matters today. We talk about Pagels's own story, her personal spiritual pull; as well as a vortex I went down in boarding school that made me understand how susceptible we all are to constraints that explain the world in overly reductive and simple ways. We reflect on how natural it is for us to want some sense of connection with a transcendent being. And how this has shaped the way Elaine approaches her work: not with the intention of destroying a framework, but looking for ways to expand it.  For links to all of Elaine Pagels's book and the (many) show notes, head over to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Thirty years ago, David Remnick published “The Devil Problem,” a profile of the religion professor Elaine Pagels—a scholar of early Christianity who had also, improbably, become a best-selling author. Pagels's 1979 book, “The Gnostic Gospels,” was scholarly and rigorous, but also accessible and widely read. She changed how a lot of people thought about the Bible. Pagels went on to write “The Origin of Satan,” as well as works on Adam and Eve and the Book of Revelation. Pagels's upcoming book, “Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus,” is a summation of her lifetime of study, as it takes on some of the central historical controversies of Christianity, including the stories of immaculate conception and the resurrection. The daughter of a scientist, Pagels “was living in a world in which science defines what you can see, and there's nothing else.” Then, as a teen-ager, she was born again after seeing the evangelist Billy Graham preach. “This was about opening up the imagination,” she tells Remnick. “I did feel like the sky opened up.” Her time in the evangelical community was brief, but her fascination with belief never faded. “I have a sense that what we think of as the invisible world has deep realities to it that are quite unfathomable.”

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About Our Guest: B. Pagels-Minor is an accomplished professional with a rich background in tech and venture capital. They have held positions at notable companies such as Apple and Netflix, where they were recognized for their strategic impact and leadership. B. Pagels-Minor is currently navigating the venture capital world, running their own firm, and continuously advocating for diversity and inclusion. Additionally, they are passionate about uplifting others through mentorship and community-building initiatives, exemplified by their nonprofit work with wealth salons focusing on women executives and LGBTQ+ individuals. Episode Summary In this engaging episode, our host Lexi B sits down with the dynamic B. Pagels-Minor to delve into the nuances of igniting confidence and harnessing what they term 'Big D Energy' to succeed in professional settings. The discussion starts with a personal anecdote about punctuality and transitions into powerful insights about career development, authenticity, and self-belief. B. Pagels-Minor shares their journey from the humble beginnings in Mississippi and Tennessee to becoming a respected thought leader in the tech and venture capital sectors. Keywords like "career confidence," "authenticity in leadership," and "venture capital success" lace the narrative, making it rich with actionable advice. B. talks about their initial struggles with professional identity and how embracing their true self, including their unique style and personality, ultimately paved the way for greater career success. The episode also explores the importance of storytelling in leadership and the role of authenticity in building meaningful workplace relationships. Key Takeaways Embrace Authenticity: Understanding and showcasing your true self is crucial for establishing confidence and succeeding in your career. Big D Energy: Exuding confidence and controlling the space around you can significantly impact your professional trajectory. Learning from Leaders: Studying the behaviors and strategies of successful leaders can provide a roadmap to developing your own leadership style. Networking and Mentorship: Building genuine connections and seeking mentors can play a pivotal role in career advancement. Community Impact: Helping others and paying it forward can not only enrich your network but also improve your standing and influence within your industry. Notable Quotes "You cannot have Big D energy if you can't even tell your story right." "For me, I started just like building the person that I wanted to be." "Honestly, if Michelle Obama... she's actually the first black president in my head." "When I walk into a room, I got Big D energy because there's no space where I'm uncommon." "Helping others and making people feel better enriches your community and elevates your own influence."

In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is B. Pagels-Minor. B. graduated college in 2008 and quickly landed a lucrative consulting job. But when the economy crashed, B. ended up working as a barista and then as a store manager at Target. They entered the role at Target with a lot of confidence. B. quickly learned that leadership isn't about being the smartest; it's about earning your team's respect. If the team doesn't follow you, it's you who will go. After Target, B. faced multiple near-disasters while experimenting with different roles and companies, trying to find what best suited their skills. This mindset of trial and error proved vital in navigating their career journey. B. is a distinguished award-winning product strategist, acclaimed podcast host within the Top 25% on Spotify, seasoned startup advisor, investor, and performance coach. As a highly regarded thought leader in product management and agile technologies, B. has steered international product teams at Fortune 100 and FAANG companies. With over a decade of service as a non-profit director, B. has driven large-scale technological and business strategy transformations across historically complex industries such as healthcare, software, and finance. Throughout an illustrious career, B. has supported revenue generation exceeding $20 billion and delivered exponential investor value. Recognized for a proven track record, B. is an experienced and growth-focused professional known for spearheading the development and execution of business, product, and culture strategies and operating as a qualified financial expert across board roles. Adept at identifying product-market fit and driving efficient scaling, key competencies include business development, product management, safety & regulatory compliance, revenue & margins growth, and cross-functional collaboration. Currently, B. operates in the startup ecosystem as an investor and trusted advisor. B. has helped their startups successfully raise hundreds of millions of dollars and nurtured companies from pre-seed to seed and from seed and beyond. B. was recruited into and led the listening team at Sprout Social and then led the acquisition and integration of a chief competitor, Simply Measured, effectively positioning the company for its final round of funding that ultimately led to a multibillion-dollar exit. B. was then recruited to the team at Apple to help lead the agile transformation for the App Store Developer Tools team and owned the experience and quality of App Store Connect, the front door to the App Store. Under B.'s leadership, App Store Connect was overhauled entirely to dramatically increase the speed and efficacy of various tooling to increase the number of apps submitted substantially and approved each day while increasing the overall satisfaction score of the product by three basis points in 2 quarters. B's success with overhauling the systems led to an opportunity to lead quality of the App Store Connect product, ownership of the App Store Connect App, and ownership of regulatory and compliance programs. B. led the integration of GDPR into the App Store, the overhaul of the App review process to support the Korea and Brazil Age Verification requirements, and also owned the relationship between App Store legal and the App Store team, including being the translator between legal and tech teams due to their experience having attended law school. The overall changes to the App Store improved relationships across critical partners like Microsoft and EA and helped the App Store exceed $60BN in revenue. Later, B. was recruited to lead the product function for finance and membership data for Netflix. Chief responsibilities included SOX compliance and ownership; reporting to finance, audit, and various finance and tax regulators; and principally responsible for helping develop insights to help supercharge Netflix's ability to right size content value and cost. Earlier, B.

Elaine Pagels is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism. Buy "The Origin of Satan" by Elaine Pagels here.

“Dark and cheerless is the morn unaccompanied by thee; joyless is the day's return till thy mercy's beams I see, till they inward light impart, glad my eyes and warm my heart.”   Why practice religion? Last week a New York Times journalist asked me a question I frequently hear from my neighbors. “Is religion dying out?” People raising this topic often cite statistics showing a decline in religious participation. Indeed more people went to church in the 1950's and 1960's than at any other time in our country's history. We were a much less diverse country in those days and we were facing the aftermath of the most destructive war in all history. Perhaps there is an ebb and flow when it comes to expressing our spirituality. I always answer by saying that human beings are spiritual beings and we always will be. We are not going to evolve or grow out of religion. We will never stop asking questions like “where did I come from? How should I dedicate my time and energy? What happens after we die?” We are symbolic creatures who depend on constructing meaning for our social lives and for our individual survival. Despair kills us. The twentieth century philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) calls humans “Dasein” or “being.” He means we are the being for whom being (that is, our very existence), is a problem.   Social scientists tell us that religious people are less depressed and lonely (they have more social connections). They are healthier and live longer. They report being happier. Columbia researcher Lisa Miller points out that children who have a positive active relationship to spirituality are 40% less likely to use and abuse substances, 60% less like to be depressed as teenagers and 80% less likely to have dangerous or unprotected sex.   This is probably not the reason to become religious. Religion is not about believing the unbelievable. At heart religions share something in common: the idea that you are not the center. Religions evolved with human beings who long for a connection to God and cannot be satisfied by anything else. I think we could spend a year talking about this but let me share two immediate responses to the question “why practice a religion,” one primarily from the head and the other from the heart.   1. Why religion? Because, “Be it life or death, we crave only reality.” Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862) wrote this in his book Walden in a section about our deep desire to fathom the depths of “opinion and prejudice, and tradition and delusion” so that we might reach the rock solid bottom “which we can call reality.” True religion involves opening to reality, becoming aware of the extraordinary mystery both of the world and our inner life.   Ed Yong wrote one of my favorite new books. It is called An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms around us. He begins by asking the reader to imagine an elephant in a room, not a metaphorical “weighty issue” sort of elephant but an actual elephant in a room the size of a high school gymnasium. Now imagine a mouse surrying in with a robin hopping along beside it. An owl sits on a beam and a bat hangs from the ceiling. A rattlesnake slithers on the floor. A spider rests in its web with a mosquito and a bumblebee sitting on a potted sunflower… and a woman named Rebecca who loves animals. They are all in the same room, but they have entirely different sensory experiences of the same space. Certain animals can see ultraviolet shades that are invisible to us. Mosquitos smell carbon dioxide. Snakes sense infrared radiation coming from warm objects. Ticks detect body heat from thirteen feet away. The robin feels the earth's magnetic field. Tiny insects make extraordinary sounds that vibrate through plants. When a fish swims it leaves behind a hydrodynamic wake, a “trail of swirling water.” Did you know that harbor seals can detect this with their whiskers and follow a herring from up to about 200 yards away? No one knew this before the year 2001.   There are whole new forms of sensing the world that human beings are only just discovering. We can barely imagine the experience that other creatures are having. I love the word that describes this. It is Umwelt, the German word for environment. But in this case it means the perceptual world of each creature. The ability of our eyes to see details for instance makes us almost entirely unique among all animals other than eagles and vultures. Our Umwelt is predominantly visual one.   My point is that we encounter truth through symbols which lie deep in our subconscious and areshared in our culture. You might call this way of seeing a kind of unavoidable mythological Umwelt. Our Umwelt determines what we think about loyalty, family, economic growth, impurity, justice, identity, childhood, politics, duty, fairness and nationality. This worldviewdirects us as we try to live a good life.   Why religion? Because we are unfinished creatures made more complete by God and each other. Religion is a way of studying, interpreting, shaping and ultimately embodying values. Participating in religion means more consciously opening ourselves to other people. This includes the diverse people in this room but also those who came before us in history who loved God and wrote hymns, prayers and theologies. Together we pray and listen to the promptings of God's spirit.   During the terrible years of apartheid in South Africa it was dangerous for Desmond Tutu to preach. But this did not stop him. He said “You are love.” “You are the body of Christ that receives the sacraments in order to become more fully the mystical embodiment of love.” God loves us so that we can love another.   2. Why religion? Because of our longing for God and God's longing for us. Religion is how we meet God. It is how we receive help from beyond ourselves. In her memoir the historian Elaine Pagels writes about the way her rationalist parents dismissed religion as something only for uneducated people, as unscientific. But this also led them in an extreme way to avoid thinking or talking about suffering and death.   Mark Twain joked, “I know that everyone dies, but I always thought an exception would be made in my case.” This was how they existed and it left them unprepared for life.   Pagels describes having difficulty getting pregnant and then participating in a kind of fertility ritual. Sitting in a candlelit circle a thought entered her mind, “Are you willing to be a channel?” She answered “Yes!” and soon became pregnant. Her son Mark was born with a hole in his heart that had to be repaired by surgery when he was one year old.   The night before the surgery she was startled by an experience that could have been a dream although she felt like she was awake. An inhuman male presence came near threatening to kill her son. She wanted to run but stood her ground. The threatening presence returned twice more. The last time she felt like she could not stand another moment. She spoke the name, “Jesus Christ” and the dangerous being fled and she was no longer afraid.   Four years later Mark was in Kindergarten when one evening she went into his room to sing him to sleep. Instead he hugged her with his arms around her neck and said, “I'll love you all my life, and all my death.” The next day at the doctor's office when they were drawing blood he stiffened and his eyes rolled up. She sensed that the life had left his body, that their connection was breaking. And she lost consciousness.   Suddenly Pagels seemed, “to be in a brilliant place, vividly green with golden light.” Her husband came in and she felt as if she could feel her son's presence there near the ceiling of the room. The cardiologist came in to say, “I don't want to get your hopes up, but your son's heart stopped and it is beating again.” Pagels had the impression that the boy had heard his parents talking and gone back to his body only to discover it couldn't sustain his life.   The boy died and Pagels writes, “Strangely, I also sensed that he'd felt a burst of joy and relief to leave his exhausted body. Before that moment, I'd taken for granted what I'd learned, that death was the end, any thought of surviving death only fantasy. Although that may be true, what I experienced that day challenged that assumption. I was astonished, seeming to sense that Mark was all right, wherever he was, and that he was somewhere.”   The tragedy deepened terribly a year later when the one person Pagels' depended on most, her beloved husband fell to his death in a climbing accident. Her parents did not visit when her son was born, or when he had open-heart surgery or when he died or for her husband's funeral. They stayed away from suffering. She called it a “pattern of oblivion.”   Elaine Pagels studied ancient gnostic literature written after the Bible was finished. She quotesthe Gospel of Thomas which says, “the kingdom of God is within you, and outside of you. When you come to know yourselves then… you will know that you are children of God.”   Pagels concludes writing, “the kingdom of God is not an actual place… or an event expected in human time. Instead, it's a state of being that we may enter when we come to know who we are, and come to know God as the source of our being… The “good news” is not only about Jesus, it's about every one of us. While we ordinarily identify ourselves by specifying how we differ, in terms of gender, race, ethnicity… recognizing that we are “children of God” requires us to see how we are the same – members… of the same family… [T]he “image of God,” the divine light given in creation, is hidden deep within each one of us, linking our fragile, limited selves to their divine source.”   Why religion? Because in the face of the great mystery of our life we long for reality. We reach beyond our Umwelt to learn from each other. Why religion? Because beyond even the “pattern of oblivion” God meets us here where we receive help from beyond ourselves.

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Elaine Pagels is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism. See me speak at Level Up in Atlanta this June: http://levelupconferences.org/

Today on the podcast I am chatting with Brian K & The Parkway. This DC-based duo has a striking instrumental fusion they have dubbed as“coastal heartland rock.” Listen in to hear us chat about how Bruce Springsteen and Asbury Park inspired them to start a band, the difficulty of getting some concert tickets, what to expect at their live shows, and more. About Brian K & The Parkway: Brian Pagels and Russ formed Brian K & The Parkway in 2021. Pagels is from Springsteen's hometown of Freehold, NJ, Russ is from the Carolinas, both share an innate connection to The Boss and are acutely inspired by him. Although the guys refer to the band name fondly as “very Jersey,” it denotes Pagels‘s name and the fact that The George Washington Memorial Parkway connects the route between their Northern Virginia homes; Pagels lives in Alexandria, Russ lives in Arlington. Learn more about Brian K & The Parkway and their music in this episode. ⁠⁠Get a full transcript of the show here⁠⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eat-sleep-breathe-music/message

Tune in for some great stories of Carrie's Mackinac origin to her books that she centers with Mackinac Island. She has several that are available at the island bookstore and on her website. www.carriefancettpagels.comwww.islandbookstore.comwww.totallymackinacislandpodcast.com

B. is the award-winning founder of DVRGNT Ventures, product strategist, podcast host, startup advisor and investor, executive coach, and a respected thought leader in agile technologies. B.'s fierce drive to promote diversity in tech and impact authentic change continues to define their work and life outside of their work. B. is a proud graduate of Northwestern University with a focus on history and an MBA and master of information systems from Robert Morris University. B. gives back to various organizations by being the Vice Chair & Secretary on the Board of Directors at Howard Brown Health, one of the top 3 largest LGBTQ community health centers in the country, Vice President & Secretary on the Board of Directors at the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, and Board of Directors of both the Northwestern Alumni Association and Outfest. B. has been honored as one of the Queer 50 from Fast Company in 2022 and 2023, 35 Hero Advocate Executives by Involve People and Yahoo Finance UK, 40 under 40 by Silicon Valley Journal, and a finalist for 2022 LGBTQNation heroes of the year.Elevate Your Brand is the #1 marketing podcast for entrepreneurs and “wantreprenuers” looking for insider tips and secrets from the most exciting new and growing brands in Los Angeles and the US at large. Each week, entrepreneurial special guests join Laurel Mintz, founder and CEO of award-winning marketing agency Elevate My Brand, to discuss the marketing failures and successes that have brought their brands to the next level. Learn from real-life experiences and be inspired by leaders in your industry about how smart digital and experiential marketing can elevate your brand.

The Book Of Revelation is said to be the strangest, most controversial book in the Bible. Some love it, and some hate it. Some Christians never talk about it; some never stop talking about it. And, some people use it as a predictor of current events, as part of their impetus for violence and fervor for hatred and political gain. Others apply Revelation as evidence of a war between good and evil to almost any situation.Elaine Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, refers to The Book of Revelation as “war literature.” Pagels explains that John of Patmos, a war refugee, wrote Revelation sixty years after the death of Jesus, and twenty years after 60,000 Roman troops crushed the Jewish rebellion in Judea and destroyed Jerusalem and its Great Temple. Pagels persuasively interprets Revelation as a scathing attack on the decadence of Rome.This FRONT ROW podcast features special guests Charlene Sinclair and Peter Laarman.Dr. Charlene Sinclair is an organizer, thinker, and writer whose work centers on the intersection of race, gender, economy, and democracy. Strongly influenced by the pathbreaking thought of the late James Cone, founder of Black Liberation Theology, Dr. Sinclair is committed to fashioning strategies that embrace a liberationist approach to faith and spirituality in the context of popular struggles for racial, economic, and gender justice. Peter Laarman is a retired United Church of Christ minister and activist who led Judson Memorial Church in New York and Progressive Christians Uniting in California. He is currently involved with the King & Breaking Silence webinar project of the National Council of Elders and with the development of a new formation called Social Ethics Energizing Democracy. Charlene and Peter approach Revelation from very different positions.

The Uplevel Dairy Podcast is expanding to include a second bi-weekly podcast, the Uplevel Dairy Young Leaders Podcast! This is for producers and professionals in the first 5 years of their dairy careers. You can find new episodes dropping every other Thursday on Uplevel Dairy, or follow the Uplevel Dairy Young Leaders Podcast on your favorite platform. We're kicking off this very first episode with Young Leader Kiley Pagel. Kiley is just wrapping up her degree in business management with an economics minor at the University of Green Bay while working full time in Pagel Family Businesses and Pagels' Ponderosa Dairy in Casco, Wisconsin.  You are going to hear about: The big decision she made in the homestretch of her college career that changed her course but got her on a path to true fulfillment How she learning to organize and prioritize to do all the things she loves  Who has inspired her to make dairy her career path

This week we chat with the one of a kind, B. Pagels-Minor! Erica and B know each other as solo GPs in the early stage venture capital world. In this episode, B shares how they've navigated various industries (including the world of venture as of recently), especially as a non-binary person of color. B has an amazing story, and we were so honored to have them on the pod!B. is an award-winning product strategist, podcast host, startup advisor and investor, executive coach, and a respected thought leader in agile technologies. B.'s fierce drive to promote diversity in tech and impact authentic change continues to define their work and life outside of their work. B. is a proud graduate of Northwestern University with a focus on history and an MBA and master of information systems from Robert Morris University. B. gives back to various organizations by being the Vice Chair & Secretary on the Board of Directors at Howard Brown Health, one of the top 3 largest LGBTQ community health centers in the country, Vice President & Secretary on the Board of Directors at the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, and Board of Directors of both the Northwestern Alumni Association and Outfest. In 2022, B. Was honored as one of the Queer 50 from Fast Company, 35 Hero Advocate Executives by Involve People and Yahoo Finance UK, and a finalist for 2022 LGBTQNation heroes of the year.Follow Us!B. Pagels-Minor: @bpagelsminorDVRGNT Ventures: @dvrgntventuresErica Wenger: @erica_wengerDear Twentysomething: @deartwentysomething

For this special classic episode, Aaron delves deeply into a provocative claim made on NPR's This American Life. In a conversation with host Ira Glass, Princeton historian Elaine Pagels argues that Jesus's death on the cross was an "utter failure." This piques Aaron's curiosity. He decides to explore the topic further, questioning leading scholars and theologians about whether Jesus's crucifixion really was a failure as Pagels suggests. Aaron brings on apologist Thomas Fretwell and his friend Wavey Cowper to share revelatory insights and historical context. They examine what Jesus and his earliest followers truly understood about his death on the cross. Was Jesus's crucifixion the Roman Empire successfully squashing a would-be revolution? Or was it the enactment of God's eternal plan of salvation for humanity? Join Aaron and his friends as they pick at Pagels' thesis - and explores the far-reaching implications of Jesus willingly enduring the ultimate human failure, in order to achieve the ultimate divine victory. Through thoughtful discussion, historical evidence and theological reflection, they aim to provide you with a fresh perspective on the death and resurrection of Christ. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/goodlion/message

B. is an award-winning product strategist, podcast host, startup advisor and investor, executive coach, and a respected thought leader in agile technologies who approaches every problem with strategy, curiosity, and genuine authenticity. As a dedicated enthusiast of scalable processes, great products, and culture development, B.'s fierce drive to promote diversity in tech and impact authentic change continues to define their work and life outside of their work. B. is a proud graduate of Northwestern University with a focus on history and an MBA and master of information systems from Robert Morris University. B. gives back to various organizations by being the Vice Chair & Secretary on the Board of Directors at Howard Brown Health, one of the top 3 largest LGBTQ community health centers in the country, Vice President & Secretary on the Board of Directors at the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, and Board of Directors of both the Northwestern Alumni Association and Outfest. In 2022, B. Was honored as one of the Queer 50 from Fast Company, 35 Hero Advocate Executives by Involve People and Yahoo Finance UK, and a finalist for 2022 LGBTQNation heroes of the year. Learn more about B. and their work at www.dvrgntventures.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us as Professor Steven Pagels helps to explain what is meant by "the will of God."  We will explore this concept in the context of life issues.

Let's learn from B. Pagels-Minor, Founder of DVRGNT. This one is for all those wondering what it will take to invest in the next crop of overlooked founders. In this episode, you'll learn about their journey into product, with a glimpse into the mindset they employ in a purpose driven life. Thanks for checking out the Beyond Normal Podcast!Don't forget to like and subscribe to stay up-to-date on all future content from Beyond Normal Media.  If you have any questions or comments, reach out because we want to hear from you.Checkout DVRGNT Ventures: https://dvrgntventures.comSupport the showFollow us on: Twitter | https://twitter.com/Beyond_Normal_ Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/beyondnormalmedia/ Linkedin | https:/https://www.facebook.com/BeyondNormalPodcast/

Aké sú niektoré zaujímavosti o živote Ježiša mimo biblických stránok? Čo sú apokryfné, agrafné a gnostické výroky Ježiša? A mal Ježiš romantickú partnerku? ----more---- Súvisiace dávky PD#246: Ježiš a zmŕtvychvstanie, http://bit.ly/davka246 PD#220: S Davidom Cielontkom o Ježišovi, http://bit.ly/davka220 PD#174: Ako vznikala Biblia? http://bit.ly/davka174 PD#124: Árijský Ježiš, http://bit.ly/davka124 Použitá a odporúčaná literatúra  Ehrman, The Lost Christianities, 2003. Ehrman, Pleše, The Apocryphal Gospels Texts and Translations, 2011. Foster, The Apocryphal Gospels, 2009. Gregory, Tuckett (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Apocrypha, 2015. Meyer (ed.), The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, 2009. Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, 2006. Zeman, “Papyrus o Ježišovej manželke bol falošný”, 2016, https://bit.ly/40W2003 *** Baví ťa s nami rozmýšľať? ❤️ Podpor našu tvorbu ľubovoľným darom, https://bit.ly/PDdar, alebo cez Patreon, https://bit.ly/PDtreon, a čo tak štýlový merch, https://bit.ly/mercPD? Ďakujeme za podporu!

Pastors Jamie and Heidi Pagels - Epiphany, week 1

Invest In Her host Catherine Gray talks with B. Pagels-Minor discusses their background and becoming an investor. B. loves product development and improving the processes of developing successful products. B. has worked with small (100,000+) companies to increase product adoption, improve the product experience and design, and evolve the product vision. B. is a thought leader on product and culture development within technology companies. They are passionate about creating a culture of accountability and sustainable processes that allow teams to “just” do the work well. www.sheangelinvestors.com  https://www.bpagelsminor.com   Follow Us On Social Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn

From an early age, B. Pagels-Minor found the tech world to be an exciting place. And, driven by that excitement, they started from the ground up with a job in technical support. B worked their way through well-known companies like Apple and Netflix to work today for a Fortune 100 company. Though B. was always curious by nature, they didn't quite know what options they'd have to pursue as they figured out, “What they wanted to be when they grew up”. B. recognized that they can learn how to do anything with focus. However, they also realized that it was easy for them to procrastinate.  So, in order to avoid procrastinating, B. made a point of always over delivering on their promises.  B. is authentic in everything they do. Their authenticity is vital in building community, which is extremely important to them. Join us in this fascinating discussion with B. A conversation that you wish wouldn't end.  Visit https://www.iambeyondbarriers.com where you will find show notes and links to all the resources in this episode, including the best way to get in touch with B. Highlights:  [02:11] B.'s journey to where they are today in the world of tech  [09:11] Being authentic and not putting yourself in a box [16:35] Overcoming fears and limiting beliefs [22:38] How B. shifted their mindset about themself  [26:42] Building a powerful community [33:32] Being concerned about your likability [37:56] Lightning round questions Quotes: “I'm very curious about how to create great experiences for people.” – B. Pagels-Minor “You can't do anything well if you're only spending 50% of your time on it.” – B. Pagels-Minor “Instant action creates the most success.” – B. Pagels-Minor Lightning Round Questions: What book has greatly influenced you?  “Inherit the Wind” by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee What is your favorite inspiring quote or saying?  “And now here's my secret, a very simple secret, it's only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - “The Little Prince” What is one word or moniker you would use to describe yourself?  Truth Teller  What is one change you've implanted that made your life better?  Trying to read one news article a day What power song would you want playing as you walk out onto a stage?  “Queen” by Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu   About B. Pagels-Minor: B. Pagels-Minor is a speaker, fierce diversity advocate, and thought leader on product and culture development within technology companies. From Mississippi to Chicago to Silicon Valley, B. Pagels-Minor has spent over a decade creating great products for amazing brands and enriching the community around them, including working for Publicis Groupe, Sprout Social, and Apple to name a few. Today B. is an expert Product Management Leader, as well as a respected thought-leader in agile technologies. They approach every problem with strategy, curiosity, and genuine authenticity. As a dedicated enthusiast of sustainable processes, great products, and culture development, B.'s fierce drive to promote diversity in tech and impact real authentic change continues to define both their work and life outside of work. When there's free time to spare, you can find B. scouring the latest financial and tech news, leading a thought-provoking personal blog, and giving back to various organizations as an active board member holding roles like the Vice Chair & Secretary on the Board of Directors at Howard Brown Health for the LGBTQ community, and Vice President & Secretary on the Board of Directors at the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago. B. currently resides with their wife in Los Angeles, California.   Links: Website: https://www.bpagelsminor.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bpagelsminor/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/bpagelsminor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bpagelsminor/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bpagelsminor2/ 

Es ist tatsächlich paradox – die Gräser und Stauden von Ernst Pagels sind weltberühmt. Aber um sein Andenken wurde – selbst in Fachkreisen - lange gerungen. Jetzt weht ein frischer Wind durch sein Vermächtnis.

In this talk, B Pagels-Minor will help you understand a little bit more what allyship might look like and how you can actually be a great ally in your workplace. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/business-of-software/message

The Smokin' Rope Podcast hits the road for 4/20 as we broadcast LIVE from Bloom City Sturgis with general manager Neil Pagels to discuss the incredibly busy location and Neil's inspiring story of joining the industry. Also featured on the show: Host Ryan Basore and co-hosts Tom Beller, founder of Real Leaf Solutions and Kevin Pybus, owner of TRUU Cannabis.

In der heutigen Folge des Experten-Podcasts spricht Marion Pagels, leidenschaftliche Expertin für Neuanfang und Neufindung, über ihre persönlichen Lebensabschnitte und Veränderungen.Du erfährst außerdem, was zu tun ist, wenn Du nicht mehr weiter weißt. Außerdem verrät Marion Pagels ihre besten Strategien, um neu anzufangen und wieder zu sich selbst zu finden.Wenn auch Du wissen willst, wie Du Krisen meisterst, dann solltest Du diese Folge des Experten-Podcasts nicht verpassen. Hat Dir der Experte des Tages gefallen, hast Du etwas für Dich mitnehmen können? Weitere Informationen bekommst Du unter https://www.marion-pagels.de/ . See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt spits on the Bible as he dares to suggest the Epic of Gilgamesh might be superior to the Word of God! BLASPHEMER! But don't worry, Joe sets him straight as we explore the ways our idea of God has changed over time. Was God always the good guy? Was Satan always the bad guy? Who was the serpent in the Garden of Eden? Does Joe know what "dialectical" means??? The answers to your most pressing questions await in this bonus episode on Prometheus and the Devil! Keep in touch on Twitter and support us on Patreon for extended episodes! Sources: Genesis 2:4-3:24 Hesiod. Trans. by Evelyn-White. "Theogony". 1914. Kovacs, Maureen. "Epic of Gilgamesh". 1998. Pagels, Elaine. The Origin of Satan. 1995. Rogers, R.W. "Adapa and the Food of Life". 1912.

Elaine Pagels is one the most celebrated scholars of early Christianity in the world.  She is the author of such popular works as "The Gnostic Gospels," "Adam, Eve and the Serpent" and "Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas."  Dr. Pagels talks with Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden about the role and identity of women in early Christianity including the radical early movement known as "Gnosticism."

Elaine Pagels is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism, including the Dead Sea Scrolls. She is the author of The Gnostic Gospels, Beyond Belief, and Revelations. (See links below to learn more.) In Good Faith is the place to hear stories and accounts from believers, told in their own words. Our hope is to listen with an open heart, celebrating the power of faith and belief, and what those stories mean to the ones who tell them. Host Steven Kapp Perry talks with believers from all walks of faith—Catholic and Episcopalian, Buddhist and Baptist, Jewish and Hindu, Presbyterian and Seventh Day Adventist, Muslim and Latter-day Saint—in other words, human beings and believers, sharing their personal experience with the sacred and the divine. Sundays on BYUradio—and be sure to subscribe to the podcast!

Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Behind Love's Wall by Carrie Fancett PagelsThe Grand Hotel Slowly Reveals Her Secrets Walk through Doors to the Past via a new series of historical stories of romance and adventure.Two successful women, a hundred-and-twenty-years apart, build walls to protect their hearts. Modern-day Willa, a successful interior decorator, is chosen to go to Mackinac Island and consult for the Grand Hotel's possible redesign. During work on a room, she discovers a journal detailing the struggles of a young woman, Lily—which reveals dark secrets. The renowned singer wasn't who she pretended to be. As Willa reaches out to Lily's descendant, a charismatic and prominent landscape artist, she lets down her guard. Should she share the journal with him—revealing hidden history—or once again erect a wall as she struggles to redesign both the Grand and her life?Get your copy of Behind Love's Wall.Carrie Fancett Pagels, Ph.D., is the award-winning and bestselling author of over twenty Christian fiction stories, including ECPA and Amazon bestsellers. Her tagline “Overcoming with God” manifests in her positive story lines. Possessed with an overactive imagination, that wasn't “cured” by twenty-five years as a psychologist, she loves bringing complex characters to life. Carrie and her family reside in Virginia's Historic Triangle. A former “Yooper” she enjoys summer trips to the Straits of Mackinac, where many of her stories are set.Carrie's novel, My Heart Belongs on Mackinac Island, won the Maggie Award and was a Romantic Times Book Reviews Top Pick. The Steeplechase was a finalist for the Holt Medallion. Her short story, “The Quilting Contest”, was the Historical Fiction Winner of Family Fiction's “The Story” national contest. Her novella, The Substitute Bride, was a Maggie Award finalist for Romance Novellas. All three of her Christy Lumber Camp books were long list finalists for Family Fiction's Book of the Year and The Fruitcake Challenge was a Selah Award finalist.Visit Carrie Fancett Pagel's website.

Elaine Pagels is a ground-breaking scholar of Christianity. Back in the Sixties she was a student at Harvard when long-forgotten ancient texts re-emerged, secret gospels challenging old religious ideas. That research shook up Christian history, but for Pagels, it was also really personal. And unlike most scholars, she decided to take her intensely personal stories public, writing about the incredible ups and tragic downs happening behind the scholarly scenes. Transcript at firesidepod.org/episodes/pagels.Buy the book and other merch at firesidepod.org/store.

Well Beings, a podcast that provides a platform for dedicated healthcare workers to tell stories of hope, inspiration, and humor. Tyler sits down with Kathleen Collins Pagels.

Reflecting on how to live a life of awesomeness, B. Pagels-Minor, a trans-nonbinary lesbian; board member of Howard Brown Health and the YWCA, both in Chicago, where they lobby for equality and equity for WoC and who spells women with an “x” is LOUD about Black womxn excellence. B. recognizes we are some of the most talented in the workplace and encourages us to OWN it! Listen to this week's episode to learn more. B. Pagels-Minor, MIS, MBA LinkedIn Twitter Website Schedule Time with Me! Pronouns: they/them/theirs The best way to predict the future is to create it. -Peter Drucker LISTEN + SUBSCRIBE + SHARE Listen on Spotify. All links: https://linktr.ee/IntimatewithWOC Let's #ElevateWOCVoices!!! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“I didn’t want to just write about loss,” says religion scholar Elaine Pagels. “I wanted to write about coming back from it and finding you can still have joy and a wonderful life. Because for me, that was a surprise.” Pagels is a bestselling author and the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Today, she joins host Elise Loehnen to discuss her books Why Religion? and The Gnostic Gospels and the journey that led her to writing them. They talk about how religious traditions can shape how we understand ourselves, whether Pagels thinks there’s such a thing as sin, and why she considers herself more of an explorer than a believer. (For more, see The goop Podcast hub.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, I sit down with Kathleen Collins Pagels to discuss her journey to owning her own healthcare consulting business from majoring in gerontology in college. She has been an integral part of the senior care industry in Arizona for many years. She is an advocate for seniors in long term care facilities and wants our seniors to have the best care possible. She helps leaders in these long term care facilities be the best leaders they can be so quality of life for seniors is high.    Find more about Kathleen's company: www.kcpagels.com

In this episode, I sat down with B. Pagels-Minor to chat about their work as a technology product manager and social change leader. We talk through their experiences graduating into the Great Recession, why they pursued a higher education, and how their identity as a trans non-binary lesbian has and hasn't affected their work life. Learn more about B. on their website. Or, keep up with them on LinkedIn.

Agile methodology can be confusing and difficult, but B Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. In this talk, you will learn how to understand which version of the many flavours of agile is right for your company based on your company with many cake references. You'll be pleased to hear, this podcast has zero calories. Recorded live at BoS Conference UAS 2018 in Boston, MA If you want to find out more about business of software head over to our website businessofsoftware.org, our twitter @bosconference, and don't forget to sign up for the BoS newsletter where we share news, stories, latest talks, upcoming events and more. Sign up for free at businessofsoftware.org/update. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/business-of-software/message

November 2, 2020 - Paraolymic Champion Jeff Pagels

Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and best selling author. He writes a bi-weekly Op-Ed column for the New York Times. Elaine Pagels is a historian of religion and professor at Princeton University. She is a best-selling author and received the National Medal in the Arts from President Obama. In this episode of Great Podversations, Egan and Pagels discuss Mr. Egan’s book Pilgrimage to Eternity, history, belief and other timely topics.

In this interview, the push for change is ever present as we sit with B. Pagels-Minor (@bpagelsminor) to discuss the needs that we hold internal as they manifest in the external. A conversation of how the professional and personal clash to give way toward a more whole and actualized self, community, and world. Welcome to our Quince. From Mississippi to Chicago to Silicon Valley, B. has built their career around building great products for amazing brands while also working to enrich their community around them. B. is a trans nonbinary lesbian whose pronouns are they/them/their. B. is a native of Mississippi who relocated to the Silicon Valley in 2018 from Chicago. B. is an enthusiast for anything technology related, as well as randomly obscure trivia facts. B. works in the technology industry and spends much too much time scouring the latest financial, footwear and technology news for new tech toys and shoes for their collection. B. loves product development and improving the processes of developing successful products. B. has worked with small (100,000+) companies to increase product adoption, improve the product experience and design, and evolve the product vision. B. is a thought leader on product and culture development within technology companies. They are passionate about creating a culture of accountability and sustainable processes that allow teams to "just" do the work well. @sineo.sin @alfluent @juneebeela#lyricalones #podcast

In this episode we discuss how the state standards are silencing women and examine the historical basis for their silence. We go way back to origin stories. You can find a lesson plan for origin stories on our website. http://www.remedialherstory.com/lessonsBibliographyButler, Charles. “Introduction.” Female Replies to Swetnam the Woman-Hater. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1995.Clabaugh, Gary K. “A History of Male Attitudes Toward Educating Women.” Educational Horizons. Vol. 64, No. 3, Spring 2010, 166. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ887227.pdf. Deakin, Michael A. B. Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr. New York: Prometheus, 2007.Diamond, Jared. “The Worst Mistake in Human History.” Discover Magazine, 1987.Maurer, Elizabeth L., Jeanette Patrick, Liesle M. Britto, and Henry Millar. “Where are the women? A Report on the Status of Women in the United States Social Studies Standards.” National Women’s History Museum. 2017. https://www.womenshistory.org/social-studies-standards. Miles, Rosalind. The Women’s History of the World. London, UK: Harper Collins Publishers, 1988. The Gnostic Society Library. “Gnostic Scriptures and Fragments: The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene.” The Gnostic Society Library. n.d. http://gnosis.org/library/marygosp.htm. Pagels, Elaine. The Gnostic Gospels. New York: Vintage Books, 1979, xiii-xxiii, Published online by PBS. Last modified 1998. http://www.shoppbs.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/story/pagels.html. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/remedialherstory)

Religious scholar Elaine Pagels trusted the Gospel of Thomas to get her through the almost unbearably painful years after the death of her six-year-old son -- born with a congenital heart defect -- followed one year later by the unexpected death of her husband. Thomas was one of many hidden texts discovered in a cave in Egypt in 1945, written around the time of Jesus but omitted from the New Testament. Pagels's exploration of the secret gospels revealed early Christianity to be a mix of traditions, stories, music, mysticism, art, and poetry that were lost in later versions perpetuated by individual Christian groups. Pagels wonders how Roman Catholics, Baptists, Mormons, and Quakers -- to name a few -- could all proclaim themselves the one true version of Christianity. The Gnostic Gospels challenged thousands of years of Christian ideology regarding our views on God, women, sexuality, and death that still dictate the cultural values we follow today. How had we not become aware that thousands of years of censoring Christianity has come to contradict our own experience of what is meaningful in our lives? So often, religion fails us in our time of need. The Gnostic Gospels gave Elaine Pagels hope. She was grateful for that. GUEST: Elaine Pagels - Professor of Religion at Princeton University and the author of several books including The Gnostic Gospels, Beyond Belief, and, most recently, Why Religion? A Personal Story Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show, which originally aired February 21, 2019.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we sat down with guitarist and songwriter Brian Pagels of The Beanstalk Library and Uptown Boys Choir to discuss Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 1999 album Echo, which spawned the singles "Room at the Top," "Swingin," and "Free Girl Now ". We focused on the darkness of Echo's lyrical undertones, and the increased roles of guitarist Mike Campbell, multi-instrumentalist Scott Thurston and drummer Steve Ferrone during the making of this record. The fact that Echo sounds as cohesive and full of energy as it does during this uncertain time in the group's career is remarkable in itself. Enjoy the conversation!

This week I am joined by Speaker, Product Professional and Activist: B. Pagels-Minor.  We play AITA, run off on some tangents but then we come back together to discuss some TAHPICS: Essence Fest postponed, Angelica Ross, COVID shenanigans, Tiger King and more!  Follow B Pagels-Minor: Twitter: @bpagelsminor Facebook: @bpagelsminor2 Instagram: @bpagelsminor Website:  www.bpagelsminor.com Follow Mocha:  Twitter: @mochaminutes FB: @mochaminutes IG: @mochaminutes

What is the ethical standpoint of Satanism? Being that Satanism is generally less codified than other religions and exists in several different forms, there are many possibilities. My goal here is to explore a few of them and to arrive at a possible ethical framework that naturally follows from Satanism in general, as well as from my own particular satanic theory. Works Cited or Consulted Baggini, J. (2005). The pig that wants to be eaten: 100 experiments for the armchair philosopher. Penguin Group. Faxneld, P., & Petersen, J. A. (2014). Cult of carnality: Sexuality, eroticism, and gender in contemporary Satanism. In H. Bogdan & J. R. Lewis (Eds.), Sexuality and New Religious Movements. Palgrave Macmillan. LaVey, A. S. (2005). The Satanic Bible. Avon Books. Milton, J. (2005). Paradise lost. Dover Publications. Nietzsche, F. W. (1976). The portable Nietzsche. Penguin Books. Nozick, R. (2013). Anarchy, state, and utopia. Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group. Pagels, E. H. (1995). The origin of Satan (1st ed). Random House. Paradise Lost as a Sacred Text. (2019, March 9). A Satanist Reads the Bible. https://asatanistreadsthebible.com/paradise-lost-as-a-sacred-text/ Satan the Accuser. (2018, November 24). A Satanist Reads the Bible. https://asatanistreadsthebible.com/satan-the-accuser/ Satan the Accuser and the Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness. (2018, December 1). A Satanist Reads the Bible. https://asatanistreadsthebible.com/satan-the-accuser-and-the-temptation-of-christ-in-the-wilderness/ Satan, the Best Friend the Church Has Ever Had. (2020, January 25). A Satanist Reads the Bible. https://asatanistreadsthebible.com/satan-the-best-friend-the-church-has-ever-had/ Shafer-Landau, R. (2015). The fundamentals of ethics (Third Edition). Oxford University Press. The Book of Job, pt. 1. (2019, August 17). A Satanist Reads the Bible. https://asatanistreadsthebible.com/the-book-of-job-pt-1/ The Book of Job, pt. 2. (2019, August 24). A Satanist Reads the Bible. https://asatanistreadsthebible.com/the-book-of-job-pt-2/ Tillich, P. (2001). Dynamics of faith (1st Perennial classics ed). Perennial. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asatanistreadsthebible/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/asatanistreadsthebible/support

I have my disagreements with LaVey, as I've described elsewhere, but this is one point where I'm in complete agreement. My objective here today is to explore that relationship with as much nuance as I can manage. Works Cited or Consulted Belief and Identity. (2019, August 3). A Satanist Reads the Bible. https://asatanistreadsthebible.com/belief-and-identity/ Bodman, W. S. (2011). The poetics of Iblis: Narrative theology in the Qur'an. Harvard Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School : Distributed by Harvard University Press. Dennett, D. C. (2007). Breaking the spell: Religion as a natural phenomenon. Penguin Books. Glustrom, S. (1989). The Myth and Reality of Judaism: 82 Misconceptions Set Straight. Behrman House, Inc. Grant, M., & Hazel, J. (2002). Who's who in Classical Mythology. Psychology Press. Huntington, S. P. (2011). The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order (Simon & Schuster hardcover ed). Simon & Schuster. Milton, J. (2005). Paradise lost. Dover Publications. Neusner, J., Frerichs, E. S., & McCracken-Flesher, C. (Eds.). (1985). “To see ourselves as others see us”: Christians, Jews, “others” in late antiquity. Scholars Press. Pagels, E. H. (1995). The origin of Satan (1st ed). Random House. Paradise Lost as a Sacred Text. (2019, March 9). A Satanist Reads the Bible. https://asatanistreadsthebible.com/paradise-lost-as-a-sacred-text/ Satan. (2020). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Satan&oldid=934485628 Satan the Accuser. (2018, November 24). A Satanist Reads the Bible. https://asatanistreadsthebible.com/satan-the-accuser/ Smith, M. S. (2002). The early history of God: Yahweh and the other deities in ancient Israel (2nd ed). William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. Smith, M. S. (2004). The origins of biblical monotheism: Israel's polytheistic background and the Ugaritic texts. Oxford University Press. Stark, R. (2003). One true God: Historical consequences of monotheism (2. print., and 1. paperback print). Princeton Univ. Press.Twain, M. (2019). The adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Seawolf Press. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asatanistreadsthebible/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/asatanistreadsthebible/support

Sissa Pagels startade sin företagsresa redan som 13-åring. Genom att anordna ett lokalt event insåg hon tidigt hur hennes driv kunde göra konkret skillnad i lokalsamhället. Idag driver hon Young Innovation Hub och hjälper andra unga sociala entreprenörer att hitta sitt driv och följa sina drömmar. Det blir ett samtal om ungas roll i samhället, om att skapa förändring och om att brinna utan att brinna ut. Behöver du fylla på ditt energikonto så är den här intervjun definitivt något för dig! 

#27: Morgan grew up in an alcoholic home and felt the consequences of the disease of addiction from very early on. Her substance use began at age 10 and quickly escalated to daily heroin use after being prescribed opiates from an injury in high school.After facing homelessness and arrest, Morgan entered treatment and began her recovery journey. First addressing her addiction, and later addressing growing up in an alcoholic home and being an adult child of an alcoholic. Morgan is now married and has two young boys, raising them in a recovering home with her husband who is also in long term recovery. Morgan has been working in the substance abuse field since 2007, and she has been clean and sober since May 10, 2005!**Our Sponsor:**Lionrock Recovery (http://www.lionrockrecovery.com)**Follow us here:**Podcast Website: (http://www.lionrockrecovery.com/podcast)Facebook: (https://www.facebook.com/LionrockRecovery/)Twitter: (https://twitter.com/lionrockrecovry)Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/lionrockrecovery/)Questions, comments or feedback? We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@lionrockrecovery.com

Religious scholar Elaine Pagels, trusted the Gospel of Thomas to get her through the almost unbearably painful years after the death of her six-year-old son -- born with a congenital heart defect -- followed one year later by the unexpected death of her husband. Thomas was one of many hidden texts discovered in a cave in Egypt in 1945, written around the time of Jesus but omitted from the New Testament. Pagels exploration of the secret gospels revealed early Christianity to be a mix of traditions, stories, music, mysticism, art, and poetry that were lost in later versions perpetuated by individual Christian groups. Pagels wonders, how Roman Catholics, Baptists, Mormons, and Quakers -- to name a few -- could all proclaim themselves the one true version of Christianity? The Gnostic Gospels challenged thousands of years of Christian ideology regarding our views on God, women, sexuality, and death that still dictate the cultural values we follow today. How had we not become aware that thousands of years of censoring Christianity has come to contradict our own experience of what is meaningful in our lives? So often, religion fails us in our time of need. The Gnostic Gospels gave Elaine Pagels hope. She was grateful for that. GUEST: Elaine Pagels - Professor of Religion at Princeton University and the author of several books including The Gnostic Gospels, Beyond Belief and most recently, Why Religion?: A Personal Story Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kate Bowler and Elaine Pagels both teach religion, write about religion, and have experienced immense hardships. In this frank and funny conversation, they explore why people still seek ancient religious teachings in our modern age. In moving and relatable moments, they explain how they overcome loss, illness, and isolation. Pagels is the author of The Gnostic Gospels and Why Religion?: A Personal Story. Bowler is the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel and Everything Happens for a Reason (and other lies I’ve loved). They speak with Gina Murdock, a writer, yoga teacher, and community organizer. Show Notes Listen to How to Save a Democracy in Decline on Aspen Insight. Follow Aspen Ideas to Go on Twitter and Facebook. Email your comments to aspenideastogo@gmail.com. The views and opinions of the speakers in the podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the Aspen Institute.

Acclaimed scholar of religion Elaine Pagels discusses the role of faith today, the practical consequences of religious ideas, and what led her to ask, "Why Religion?" with Tricycle's editor and publisher, James Shaheen. Pagels is the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion at Princeton University, a MacArthur Fellow, and a best-selling author who won the National Book Award for her groundbreaking 1989 work, "The Gnostic Gospels." Her latest book, "Why Religion? A Personal Story" explores why religion has persisted through a blend of meticulous research and an earnest exploration of her own struggles with faith and grief.

When Pagels, author of groundbreaking studies of the Gnostic Gospels, was asked, “Why religion?" she found that her own life illuminates both why she’s made a career of studying religious texts as well as why religion itself still exists in the supposedly secular 21st-century. The daughter and wife of scientists, Pagels was taught to trust the rational, but she found herself attracted to religious music and rituals for how they engaged the imagination. After the loss of her five-year-old son in 1987, followed by her husband’s death in an accident in 1988, Pagels turned to religion for help in facing her grief and anger. Interweaving the fascinating scholarship behind books such The Origin of Satan and Revelations with her own experiences, Pagels’s memoir is as emotionally affecting as it is thought-provoking.Pagels is in conversation with Dr. Eric Motley, executive vice president at the Aspen Institute and author of the memoir Madison Park.https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9780062368539Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stefan Pagels er ugens gæst, og du kan måske genkende ham fra de ældre film som Klatretøsen, Mirakel eller Min søters børn. I dag er han laver han til gengæld noget HELT anderledes. Han driver et teater, der hedder Improv Comedy Copenhagen. Her undervises også i, hvordan man bliver bedre til at improvisere, og det er lige præcis improvisationsdelen, vi tager fat i her i afsnittet. Vi går også endnu dybere senere i samtalen til en snak om, hvad der har gjort, at Stefan blev alkoholiker, og hvordan han blev ædru igen og har været det i 4 år (vanvittigt inspirerende historie!) - lyt godt efter:

Shownotes: Philipp Pagels in ein 32-jähriger Ingenieur aus Frankfurt. Er hat es in sehr kurzer Zeit auf ein Jahresgehalt von 100.000 € geschafft und hat einen Beruf, der ihn begeistert. Er erzählt in diesem Interview, worauf es im Studium wirklich ankommt. Zudem teilt er seine besten Tipps, was du bereits jetzt als Student machen kannst, um den Grundstein für eine erfolgreiche berufliche Zukunft zu legen. // Schick mir deine Frage! Mein Anchor-Profil:  anchor.fm/fabianbacherle  oder anonym über diese Umfrage: goo.gl/forms/t5NYRaVSbt0P8G722  // Musik (CC03-Lizenz): Song: Fredji - Happy Life (Vlog No Copyright Music) Music provided by Vlog No Copyright Music. Video Link: youtu.be/KzQiRABVARk

Shownotes: Philipp Pagels in ein 32-jähriger Ingenieur aus Frankfurt. Er hat es in sehr kurzer Zeit auf ein Jahresgehalt von 100.000 € geschafft und hat einen Beruf, der ihn begeistert. Er erzählt in diesem Interview, worauf es im Studium wirklich ankommt. Zudem teilt er seine besten Tipps, was du bereits jetzt als Student machen kannst, um den Grundstein für eine erfolgreiche berufliche Zukunft zu legen.

Clutch Talk Sports Radio Live is joined by Jeff Eisenband of The Post Game talking NBA Finals, Ryan Songalia of Ring Magazine talking boxing and more, and Matthew Pagels of Bolts Beat covering the Los Angeles Chargers and much more!

Clutch Talk Sports Radio Live is joined by Jeff Eisenband of The Post Game talking NBA Finals, Ryan Songalia of Ring Magazine talking boxing and more, and Matthew Pagels of Bolts Beat covering the Los Angeles Chargers and much more!

Då var det dags för det sjätte avsnittet av ”Konsten att förändra” och denna gång har jag fått äran att träffa den så drivna och inspirerande Sissa Pagels!   Sissa är en tjej som kommer från Bräkne-Hoby i Blekinge och har gjort en fantastiskt spännande resa i hållbarhetens tecken. Hon har varit med och grundat organisationer som Green Teens, Take Action och har även varit aktiv i Världsnaturfondens ungdomsråd WWF Sweden Youth. Sissa är idag medgrundare till Young Innovation Hub och blev i början av året utsedd som en av Sveriges ”Change Leaders” som utses av Reach for Change! Under avsnittet så kommer vi att prata om passioner, vad som är Sissas främst nyckelfaktorer, Sissas olika engagemang, hur man skapar inkludering i samhället och mycket mycket mer!   Ha en underbar lyssning i podcastens förunderliga värld mina vänner! Med värme, Filip

Ray Pagels and Allen Helms Share about Planned Giving by Lawyers For Jesus

Where is God when it hurts? Is there a point to the suffering? We may not always know the answer to these questions, but we can experience Joy in the midst of pain and suffering. Listen to learn how!

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Our world sells a narrative of fear, scary stories of a future with one political party or the other in power; a story of loss and struggle that God has no part to play. In this series, we will explore the New Testament book of Titus and see how the first century church was challenged to face their world and political situation with faith in the face of fear.

October 10, 2016 - Jeff Pagels

In this podcast, Tom, Trevor and Chad try and ferret out the various theological issues and assumptions of the Gospel of Thomas. We also take a stab at trying to figure out if it is fair to call this a Gnostic Text.

For the next two weeks, Tom, Trevor and Chad will discuss the Gospel of Thomas, beginning with questions about its dating and location. We also provide a fairly thorough summary of scholarly debate concerning the Gospels and there order and date, as it relates to the writing of the Gospel of Thomas. Please visit our blog at ahistoryofchristiantheology.com for more information.

Elaine Pagels, Professor of Religion at Princeton University, delivers a talk at Facing History and Ourselves’ Day of Learning: Confronting Evil in Individuals and Societies. Pagels explains that many interpretations of evil throughout history are inspired by the Book of Revelation, and she uses artistic depictions to describe the events of the story. She then illustrates examples of people using the imagery from the Book of Revelation at different times of war to justify their position and vilify their enemy.

What does it mean that God is "Holy?" Just how Holy is God? And, perhaps as important, are you serving the One True Holy God, or a weaker image?

In Part 2 of his conversation with the Jennifer & Jason Pagel - Youth Ministers at the Harpeth Hills Church of Christ in Brentwood, TN - David asks Jennifer to talk about the challenges of being one of the very first female YM's in the CoC...

David sits down with Jennifer and Jason Pagel - who have both been youth ministers at the Harpeth Hills Church of Christ in Brentwood, TN for the last 16 years. After an exciting discussion about Jason's flight-school sand volleyball...

"The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible. It's the most controversial. It doesn't have any stories, moral teaching. It only has visions, dreams and nightmares. Not many people say they understand it, but for 2000 years, this book has been wildly popular." So says scholar Elaine Pagels, who was in Louisville recently as featured guest at the Kentucky Author Forum. Pagels discussed in depth her latest book, Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation, in a sprawling interview conducted by Gustav Nieburh, a professor of religion at Syracuse University. Pagels tracks The Book of Revelation back to its historical origin, written as its author John of Patmos took aim at the Roman Empire after what is now known as "the Jewish War," in 66 CE. Militant Jews in Jerusalem, fired with religious fervor, waged an all-out war against Rome's occupation of Judea and their defeat resulted in the desecration of Jerusalem and its Great Temple. Pagels interprets Revelation as a scathing attack on the decadence of Rome. Soon after, however, a new sect known as "Christians" seized on John's text as a weapon against heresy and infidels of all kinds: Jews, even Christians who dissented from their increasingly rigid doctrines and hierarchies.

I avsnitt 4 av Sissas och Sabinas podcast gästas vi av fantastiska Milad Mohammadi. Trots sina ynka 23 år har han redan hunnit med mycket. Han har bland annat varit med och startat Soppköp Stockholm, han är projektledare och utbildare på Fryshuset Inc och han är krönikör på Nyheter24 i integration och mångfald. Milad berättar om sin barndom, om sina drömmar och hur han blev den han är idag. Om ni vill veta hur det kommer sig att Milad blev en av Sveriges yngsta med en dubbelexamen, hur han tänker kring framgång och vad han har som mål för framtiden - då ska ni lyssna på detta avsnitt. Avsnittet klipptes av Martin Michaelsson.

I första avsnittet av Sissas och Sabinas podcast intervjuar vi naturligtvis oss själva. Ni får veta det hemska som hände mig(Sabina) den dagen, ni får höra Sissas pappas kloka råd, hur det är att vara tonåring i Blekinge och Trollhättan mm. Så luta er tillbaka och njut! (Ta hänsyn till att det är vårt första avsnitt!) Klippt av Martin Michaelsson.

We hear a lot these days about Armageddon, the Apocalypse, the Rapture, End Times. More than a current cultural phenomenon, they appear to be a persuasive motivating force for millions of Americans. These words are now part of our vocabulary, and as metaphors, they show up all over the map -- Carmageddon as the nickname for the I-405's weekend closure in July 2011. But, where do they come from? As many of you may know, they come from the Book of Revelation, the last book of the Christian New Testament. But how did they get there? Who wrote this? What does it mean? This week's guest, religious scholar ELAINE PAGELS, author of The Gnostic Gospels, considers the Book of Revelation to be wartime literature. She points out that it was written by a Jew following Rome's resounding defeat of a Jewish uprising, and interprets it as an attack on the decadence of the Empire. Soon, however, a new sect known as "Christians" seized on it as a weapon against heresy and infidels of all kinds. I believe that weapon is still active today in American culture and politics. We'll talk about Revelations, and we'll talk a bit about the Gnostic Gospels and the over 50 texts discovered hidden and preserved in Nag Hammadi Egypt in 1945. And about the impact of politics and culture on religion, highlighted by the moment when Constantine converted to the Church of Rome. Christianity went from being the religion of outsiders and freethinkers, to being the religion of the Empire. And we'll talk about how all of this plays out today in the US and around the world.

Revelations about the Book of Revelation Probably the most consequential vision of the future ever written is the Bible’s Book of Revelation. If God didn’t write it (through the sainted instrument of someone named John), then who did, and why? Elaine Pagels has a persuasive answer, spectacularly illustrated. The author of The Gnostic Gospels; Beyond Belief; and Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation, Pagels analyzes other revelations of the time (they were common) and examines how John’s particular version of apocalypse made it into the world’s most popular book. John had his own agenda. It wasn’t Christian.

Elaine Pagels - Growing up in a family of scientists, Elaine Pagels was taught that scientific discovery had made religion obsolete and irrelevant. Despite this early training — or perhaps because of it — Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, is now one of the country’s leading scholars of religion. An intensely inquisitive and thorough historian, Pagels’ impeccable scholarship has won her international respect. As a young researcher at Barnard College, she changed forever the historical landscape of the Christian religion by exploding the myth of the early Christian Church as a unified movement. Her findings were published in the bestselling book, The Gnostic Gospels (1979, Random House), an analysis of 52 early Christian manuscripts that were unearthed in Egypt in 1945. Known collectively as the Nag Hammadi Library, the manuscripts demonstrate that the early Christian movement was far more diverse than previously thought. They also indicate how women, prominent in certain Christian groups, were subsequently excluded from governing positions in its emerging hierarchy. As the early church moved toward becoming an orthodox body with a canon, rites and clergy, the Nag Hammadi manuscripts were suppressed and deemed herectical. Expanding on questions raised in The Gnostic Gospels, Pagels wrote Adam, Eve and the Serpent (1988, Random House), a book that explores the Genesis creation stones and their role in the development of sexual attitudes in the Christian West — as well as the conviction, fundamental to American political life, that “all men are created equal.” Pagels wrote The Origin of Satan (1995, Random House) after two tragic events in her life, the 1987 death of her six-year-old son Mark to a respiratory disease and the 1988 death of her husband of 20 years, physicist Heinz Pagels, in a rock climbing accident. Pagels says that following these events, like many people who grieve, she had a sense of living with invisible presences. The book is a culmination of her reflections on the many ways that various religions have given imaginative form to what is invisible. She sketches the development of Jewish and Christian perceptions of evil. She also points out a clear connection between the primarily western view of the world as a battleground between supernatural forces of good and evil, and the tendency of certain groups — both Christian and Muslim — to demonize others. This tendency, observes Pagels, resulted in “some very human tragedies.” She adds, “[Demonization ] is a cultural habit we can no longer afford.” In her New York Times bestseller Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, Pagels focuses on religious claims to possessing the ultimate “truth.” She contends that, as Christianity became increasingly institutionalized, it became more politicized and less pluralistic. Says Pagels, “I’m advocating, on some level, the inclusion of [religious texts] that were considered blasphemous. I suggest that there are ways of embracing a far wider spectrum of religious diversity within Christianity and quite beyond Christianity.” Her latest book, Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity (March 2007), is also a New York Times bestseller. Co-authored with fellow scholar Karen King, the book is the first to illustrate how the newly discovered Gospel of Judas provides a window onto understanding how Jesus’ followers understood his death, why Judas betrayed Jesus, and why God allowed it. She has also been profiled in such national publications as TIME, The Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Mirabella, The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. In February 1997, Pagels was named one of the 25 Most Influential Working Mothers by Working Mother magazine. In 2003 she was a featured commentator on the ABC special program, “Jesus. Mary and Da Vinci.”

DISCLAIMER! This year-end Path of Reason podcast is more laid back and informal than usual (i.e. it is unedited and has all the bloopers and a few profanities)! We just wanted to have fun this time around and discuss things like: - Islam - Our church-going days - Girls Gone Wild (for Christ) - Irenaeus and the Four Gospels - Early Christianity - Marrying author, Elaine Pagels ***Thanks to all of our listeners! We'll be back with more podcasts in 2008!*** Running Time: approx. 48 minutes Keep checking out http://www.pathofreason.com for updates etc!