Elaine Pagels on “The Historical Mystery of Jesus”
This episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour features a profound conversation with religion scholar Elaine Pagels, whose decades-long study of early Christianity, Gnostic texts, and the evolution of religious belief reveals how personal grief and spiritual curiosity can coexist. The dialog
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