As Thanksgiving approaches, Brian From marvels at how fast the years fly by in adulthood, then turns to the historical evidence for Jesus outside the Bible. Drawing on Jim Denison’s Denison Forum, he explores the Testimonium Flavianum, a passage by first-century Jewish historian Josephus that describes Jesus as a wise man and doer of wonderful works, crucified under Pilate, whose followers reported Him alive on the third day. Many modern scholars have doubted that Josephus wrote the passage, but Brian highlights T.C. Schmidt’s book Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ, which argues that it is likely authentic and that Josephus had personal connections to the priestly family that presided over Jesus’ trial. Brian encourages listeners that the gospel accounts aren’t myths, and that the earliest disciples were willing to die for what they had seen.