can do in the church (The Testimony of St. Paul to Christ [1905], p. 466). Thus in the early propagation of the Christian message women played an important role. The number of times specific women ...

Saint Paul, a founding figure of the Christian Church, is pictured with a book and the sword he was martyred by in this oil painting by Batoni. After Jesus' death in A.D. 33 , his early followers ...

the pilgrims will honor the little-known saint who makes a solitary appearance in the New Testament’s Letter to the Romans as an associate of St. Paul and a female deacon of the early church.

Read excerpts from The Acts of Paul and Thecla. Did stories like Thecla -- the fact that the early church is urging people to abstinence, to effectively be breaking up their families, leaving ...

But church historians have long known that certain Jewish followers of Christ, in the early decades after his death, regarded him as merely another prophet of Israel, and denounced Peter and Paul ...

Acts 20:1–16 offers a practical picture of what it means to love the church—not the building, but the people. As the Apostle ...