Uhh, no, librul evangelical on Patheos, Paul's family didn't become Roman citizens when made freedmen of the Sergius Paulus family. First, being freed did not have to guarantee Roman citizenship. Second, Paul himself was not a Roman citizen.
Uhh, no, independent scholar of Christianity (I am one, too) Acts is not highly accurate. Instead, especially in the last one-quarter, it's HUGELY INaccurate.
Both of those (and more) came from one of the worst recent posts by Amateur Exegete, who also there has a video clip of Robyn Walsh telling you "Paul was not a Christian." No shit, sherlock. (I'm not that high on her in general.)
An otherwise very good article on Mark and the Messianic Secret undercut itself by claiming Herod was not Jewish. I agree with the locale and the likely dating (though I would date it much more narrowly around 71 CE and not have such an open-ended terminus ad quem).
Speaking of, I found his Goodreads page. Per books we have in common (don't know if this will show for third-party readers) I'm more underwhelmed, especially on his love for Ehrman. Worse yet, he's touted one of the books in which he's way wrong on one of his posts. (We're only two stars apart, not three, that said.)
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