Your magazine has been regularly accused of atheism, agnosticism and, for all I know, alcoholism. But you weave a mostly successful and respectful path among science, archaeology, literature, religion and history— and that ain’t easy! No publication will please all of the people all of the time (including me), but those who do not want to hear new information, those who preserve their faith and religion in a vacuum where contradictions and conundrums dare not be acknowledged, are best advised to read only their Bibles and comforting religious tracts.

The Bible itself is full of apparent contradictions. Therein lies our work.Many of us enjoy the challenge and grow from processing all of the information that is out there— the religious, the archival and the archaeological.