The following is an excerpt from an article that Jeremiah wrote for Fox News. You can read the entire article HERE.
Here is what you are supposed to believe about America in 2026: we are a post-Christian country. The faith of our grandparents is fading. The rising generation has moved on. The artifacts in the museums and the manuscripts under glass belong to a world that no longer speaks to ours. Then explain what just happened.
A book arguing the opposite — that the historical evidence for Jesus of Nazareth is stronger today than at any point in 2,000 years — just climbed to the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Not a celebrity memoir. Not a political tell-all. A book about ten discoveries — ossuaries, papyri, inscriptions, a linen cloth, coins pulled from Judean dirt — arguing that the man at the center of Western civilization is exactly who the Gospels said he was.
I wrote that book. I am not surprised it found readers. I am surprised by how many — and by what that number is telling us.
NEW BOOK ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR JESUS ROCKETS TO TOP OF BESTSELLER LIST
The story America keeps getting told is that faith retreats as evidence advances. The data say otherwise. Every shovel in the ground for the last century has cut against the skeptics, not for them.
The critics said Pontius Pilate was a fiction of pious imagination — a Roman governor invented by Christians to lend their story gravity. Then in 1961 at Caesarea Maritima, archaeologists turned over a limestone block with his name carved into it. Prefect of Judea. Inscription intact. The man the Gospels place at the trial of Jesus is now attested in stone by the very empire that executed him.
