A guided way in.

Start with the Primer.

The Primer is the doorway. It tells the argument as a story rather than as academic scholarship — Jesus in the garden, the world that produced him, the message the institution built in his name has spent two thousand years pointing away from. If nothing else in Sola Exemplum lands for you, the Primer is where you'll find out.

Then read Bullshit — or read the main book.

If you are an atheist, or if the word "God" makes you flinch before anything else can land, read Bullshit next. It is the argument in the register of someone who sees through every story on offer and suspects that seeing through isn't the same as being broken.

If you're ready for the long case — history, philosophy, biblical scholarship — skip to the main Sola Exemplum book. It's the primary source; everything else is a companion to it.

• Bullshit→
• Sola Exemplum (the main book)→

Follow the path you want.

The remaining books are companions. You don't need to read them in order.

• Testament — the curated ancient texts, if you want to read what the earliest witnesses actually said.
• Hidden James, Revealer, and Thomas — close readings of three non-canonical Nag Hammadi texts, each preserving a version of Jesus the institution worked hard to erase. Read any of them in any order.

Or read the writings.

Shorter essays, posted as they're written. A letter when there's something worth saying.