What does the oldest fragment of the New Testament tell us?

Is Christmas just a nice story 'for the children' or an historical fact that affects us all?

A review of Philip Pullman's The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.

If your mother claims that you are an honest person, we may trust you that you will do what you say. Yet some reservation is understandable…

What historical evidence is there for the life of Jesus and the first Christians?

Did the early Christian communities apply Jesus's teaching to the problems they faced or alter the facts to fit their agendas?

Were the Gospel accounts based on the testimony of eyewitnesses who were still alive when the Gospels were written?

This video describes the discovery of the earliest copy of part of John's Gospel, the 'John Rylands Fragment'.

Can we be confident that we have the original text of the Gospels? How does it compare to other ancient documents?