"This Is The Christ," by Paul Thomas Smith

In this engaging new book, author and historian Paul Thomas Smith
has created my Christmas pick of the year--a text that is
comfortingly familiar, yet filled with the bits of history and
insight a life-long scholar can add to the narrative to make it
vivid and alive in our minds and hearts; a book families and
students of the scriptures can enjoy for years to come.  And
the illustrations drawn from the religious paintings of Carl
Bloch are the perfect accompaniment to the text throughout.

Why were shepherds despised in New Testament times?  Was
there really no rooster that crowed three times for Peter? 
Was Luke wrong about the census?  Listen as the author
discusses all of this and more.

That's this week on The Cricket and Seagull...