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America isn’t done with Jesus — and the bestseller list just proved it

From Pontius Pilate's inscription to the James Ossuary, these ten discoveries cut against the skeptics, not for them

By Jeremiah J. Johnston Fox News

Published May 3, 2026 8:00am EDT

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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........

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