The Plight of the Christian Scholar

October 24th, 2025 | 6 min read

I recently had the pleasure of grabbing coffee with T. C. Schmidt, the author of Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ. Princeton is lucky to have Schmidt for the year while he is a visiting fellow at Princeton University’s James Madison Program. Sitting down and talking with him for several hours clarified a great deal in my mind about the plight of the Christian scholar.

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John Ahern

John Ahern is a graduate student pursuing a PhD in musicology from Princeton University. He is a substitute organist for the Princeton University chapel on occasion. He loves his wife and son, and they all frequently sing, to greater and lesser degrees of success, Renaissance bicinia over dinner.

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