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 (PhD, Princeton University) is the Director of the Coverdale House.

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The Plight of the Christian Scholar

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