May 25, 2022
In the first three centuries of Christian history, the practice of the faith was a capital crime, and many gave their lives as the ultimate testimony. The Church called them “witnesses”—in Greek, martures, whence we get the English word martyr. To speak of martyrdom, the early Fathers employed language usually...
May 11, 2022
Music formed the early Christians in faith. It catechized them. Inspired them. Unified them. Healed them. The Fathers — from Ignatius of Antioch to John of Damascus — testify to this fact. Many of them wrote music. Augustine wrote a book about music. At a time when most people could not read, music was the most...
May 4, 2022
Why is it big news when someone claims to find a fragment of a
lost "gospel"? Why do people say that these ancient apocrypha
threaten to overturn everything Christians believe? In the second
century, some of these pseudonymous books appeared and quickly
landed in the remainder bin, called into question by giants
such...