Yesterday I resumed my posts on Reza Aslan’s best-selling hit Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, and plan to have several more posts on it, as I explain what I like about the book and about what problems I see in it. But I need to take care of a couple of other concerns first, before launching into a direct discussion.

The first has to do with this blog. A number of people on my facebook page have expressed frustration that the only way to get my comments is to join the blog, whi...