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Show Notes:We answer listener’s questions about large families, alternatives to college, girls who might not want careers, how to find a spouse, and old house living! But first, Phil addresses this “respectful” story:A Conversation About the Virgin Birth That Maybe Wasn’t — The New York TimesNicholas Kristof: “I want to be respectful of readers who have a deep faith… So, acknowledging that this is uncertainty stacked on uncertainty, if Panthera was involved, was it [the birth of Jesus] probably a case of rape?”Elaine Pagels: “I used to dismiss such stories as ancient slander. Yet while we do not know what happened, there are too many points of circumstantial evidence to simply ignore them… The discovery of the grave of a Roman soldier named Tiberius Panthera, member of a cohort of Syrian archers stationed in Palestine in the first century, might support those ancient rumors.”Elaine Pagels is revealed to be a complete academic fraud here: The Pagels Imposture April 26, 2006, by Father Paul Mankowski, SJWe still have more questions to answer, and welcome yours! Leave a comment here or send an email to [email protected] for listening to The Home Front! Please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber so you won’t miss an episode!Don’t wish to subscribe just now? How about this: Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe