Author: Paul Bishop

  • ‘Proof!’

    ‘Proof!’

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    Paul Bishop

    A controversial modern question is ‘do science and religion mix’? Much of the reasoning in the secular society answers with an emphatic ‘no’. It would be compared to mixing oil and water. It is worth exploring this view in the context what is often perceived as being the end product of science. Proof. Some modern…

  • Evidence of an X-Ray Effect?

    Evidence of an X-Ray Effect?

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    Paul Bishop

    Marcel Morejon kindly sent me a recent article by Newsmax in which author and dental surgeon Dr John Sottosanti describes seeing a lower dental line of teeth on the Shroud image. Sottosanti says that he shared his findings with a dental research associate who said “I agree, I see the exact same thing”. According to…

  • Shrouded in History:Twenty Evidences of the Shroud’s Ancient Provenance

    Shrouded in History:Twenty Evidences of the Shroud’s Ancient Provenance

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    Paul Bishop

    In a recent interview with Piers Morgan, Dr.Joe Accetta who is a Shroud sceptic and who was on the STURP team of 1978 said that one of the four pillars of authenticity is some sort of chain of custody (provenance) as to where the Shroud has been for the last 2000 years. This is thought…

  • The Face of Jesus

    The Face of Jesus

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    Paul Bishop

    In the recent BSTS summer 2025 newsletter there is an excellent article by our very own numismatic expert Justin Robinson, Byzantine Gold – the two faces of Jesus. In it he looks at two gold solidus coins minted during the reign of Justinian II. The first coin minted between 692 – 695AD portrays a Shroud…

  • The Shroud of Turin: first century or medieval cloth?

    The Shroud of Turin: first century or medieval cloth?

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    Paul Bishop

    Pontius Pilate when questioning Jesus asked the question “What is truth?” Which is probably a more honest question than would be asked by today’s culture “What is my truth?”  In the context of the Shroud of Turin, the persistent question asked is “What is proof?”