Only divine leadership could explain the phenomenal missionary successes of the Christian Church ... “holy fellowship,” which is Christ’s body and bride, and which maintains steadfastly ...

That those are the people who are blessed in this new recasting of the Christian message. Read excerpts from The Acts of Paul and Thecla. Did stories like Thecla -- the fact that the early church ...

Over time, the Christian church and faith grew more organized. In 313 AD, the Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, which accepted Christianity: 10 years later, it had become the official ...

They wanted normal lives - a family, owning a home. Then they chose to take religious vows. Two young nuns, a rarity in ...

"Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ" (1 Peter ... as his ...