Can NPR’s Terry Gross get any better at extracting delicate spiritual insights from the folks she so skillfully has on her program? I love her. I listen to her show “Fresh Air” in the car when I’m on my way to pick up the young Chatterings. And the religious topics she’s tackling are so, well, “fresh” and illuminating.

Yesterday, Gross aired a taped interview with Bart Ehrman. He’s the author of “Misquoting Jesus”, and “Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew.” He is also chairman of the religious studies department at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Ehrman talks about how scribes both intentionally and mistakenly altered the Bible throughout history. He also explains just how varied the descriptions of Christ are from New Testament book to book. Gross also gets Ehrman to explain how he went from being an evangelical Christian to liberal Protestant to “happy agnostic.” I think you’ll find the discussion fascinating.