It's very kind of you to make the effort to communicate your personal experiences with items I mentioned. Thank you so much for the thoughtfulness. I'm very glad you something useful from my comments.

I don't remember if my comment about the pizza and the recipe source included mention of the source, superstar chef J Kenji Alt-Lopez and the Serious Eats website where much of his work can be found, but that's the place to go for great recipes, equipment reviews, and techniques of all kinds. He also does You Tube videos. I've recently seen recipes from Kenji and mention of his work in both the NY Times and the Washington Post in the past month.

I missed his recommendation of the Thomas Sheehan podcasts, thanks for mentioning it. Always happy to listen to something new.

I make pizza dough regularly and always freeze half. Very handy to thaw overnight and whip up a pizza on short notice.

That's great that you gave a shout-out to Elmer with your experiences!

I'm a big fan of Kenji! He's my first stop when looking for recipes and techniques. His Food Lab cookbook is fabulous.

In the interest of sharing an explanation about Thomas Sheehan and the podcast, I'll repeat the background:

Thomas Sheehan is a professor of religious studies and philosophy at Stanford. A devout Catholic and (I believe) a one-time seminarian as a younger man, he spent a large chunk of time during his career doing research and being part of the community of religious studies scholars and historians focused on what is known factually about the world during periods covered by both the Old and New Testaments, and how the historical record agrees or conflicts with what is said in these texts. He's not unlike scientists I've encountered who have sincere religious beliefs who say something like this - "my intellectual life and activities and my religious beliefs are two separate worlds that I don't try to combine or draw links between. They exist independent of one another with no need to be associated".

The podcast was from a series of lectures given in Stanford's School of Continuing Studies, which isn't the regular university setting but is aimed toward adult students. The podcast is free and can be found by searching in the ITunes store under iTunesU, Stanford. It's a series of very interesting and personable lectures in which he reviews the factual historical record among scholars and how the analyses relate to what's said in the two parts of the Bible. Sources and explanations of biblical texts and stories are discussed. Through the lectures, he is repeatedly respectful and apologetic, saying that he doesn't intend to contribute to or challenge in any way any person's religious beliefs or lack of religious beliefs. And says that the class is a history class.

You don't need an Apple device to get or listen to the podcasts. You can use a PC by downloading the free iTunes program and playing it on that. Or transferring files so obtained to a different device. If you want to listen on an Android phone or tablet, you download the podcast on your PC using iTunes and then sync it to the Android Apple Music app.

I've listened to the series many times over the years because I find it that enjoyable, which is why I'm enthusiastic about sharing it. I hope others will like it too.

I found the lectures simply by googling Thomas Sheehan podcast. I googled that repeatedly as I listened to the 11 lecture series, about 2 hrs per lecture over a week and a half.

I'm glad you found an easier way. I got it the way I described and have saved the sound files on my PC.

Elmer, just wondering, have you ever read any of Bart Ehrman's books? He's another scholar of the same time and subject and he writes well.

No, I haven't. I'll look into what he's done. Thanks

What I like best about Sheehan's approach are his efforts to be fair, neutral, and to avoid insulting anyone. No way more so than his use of the more historically correct name Yeshua instead of Jesus, to help people avoid any pro or con biases toward the subject matter that may come from their own views involving the person they call Jesus. .

Eherman is fascinating because he was an evangelical Christian who gradually lost his faith. He's a well-respected New Testament scholar.