Legacy media tries to debunk Christianity ahead of Easter — but fails spectacularly

Catholic Bishop Robert Barron is bringing attention to the latest legacy media attempt to delegitimize Christianity.

Last month, the New Yorker published an essay titled, “We’re Still Not Done with Jesus,” that traces the contours of scholarly debate about the origins of Christianity. The chief problem with the essay is that it refused to seriously consider the biblical account of Christianity and Christ as historical fact, a record preserved in the New Testament.

‘Why, I wonder, are there no similar pieces on Islam written during Ramadan?’

As Ross Douthat explained, the essay frames the historical issues of Christianity as either “mythologized and invented, but on the basis of some set of true events” or “illusory and inaccessible and the books of Mark,

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