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A few years ago, in a town not too far away, there was a traffic accident involving a car and a motorcycle. The person driving
A few years ago, in a town not too far away, there was a traffic accident involving a car and a motorcycle. The person driving
In the latter half of the third century CE, the early church had been free of persecution and had not only grown in numbers but
Transitions are not elegant. They are doctors’ handwriting. They are gangly fifteen-year-old boys and girls covered in acne. They are playing mud soccer, tripping, and
“An abba said, ‘The prophets wrote books, then came our fathers, who put them into practice. Those who came after them learnt them by heart.
Who am I really? Who am I apart from my achievements (or failures) and the roles that I play in life? Both questions invite us
Right now, in this post-holiday season, many of us are recovering from offering hospitality to disagreeable family members: aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, and in-laws, whose
In a strange confluence of events, I found myself writing a master’s thesis on the apostle Paul’s usage of the term “body” while having my
The term “church history” immediately conjures up a collage of images: Gothic script and stone cathedrals; flowing vestments, gleaming chalices, bones, and books. The thing
“Mary treasured up all [the words of the shepherds] and pondered them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19) In Luke’s account of the birth of Christ,
At one of the most pivotal moments in the history of the early apostolic church—an inflection point recorded in the book of Acts—we read: