Jan 8th, 2009 · A BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) officer shot and killed an unarmed man on Jan. 1. After a peaceful protest at the BART station, the crowd turned violent and took to the streets of Oakland. Police arrested at least 105 rioters for assault, vandalism, looting and arson.
Apr 10th, 2008 · Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez deemed the American cartoon The Simpsons "a bad influence on children," and the country's TV regulator forced it from the morning lineup. The replacement? Reruns of Baywatch Hawaii -- so kids will now be able to watch voluptuous gals cavorting on the beach.
Apr 26th, 2006 · Religion scholar Bart D. Ehrman, who chairs the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, talks about his new book, Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend.
Dec 14th, 2005 · Scholar Bart Ehrman's new book explores how scribes -- through both omission and intention -- changed the Bible. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why is the result of years of reading the texts in their original languages.
Jul 9th, 2004 · Ehrman is the Bowman and Gordon Gray professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina. His newest book is Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew. It chronicles the period before Christianity as we know it came to be, when people with conflicting ideas about the religion were fighting for prominence in the second and third centuries. Ehrman also edited a collection of the early non-canonical texts from the first centuries after Christ called Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament.