The Apostle Paul, following his conversion to Christianity, became not only a literary champion for the defense of the faith, but an evangelist who travelled throughout the Roman Empire establishing ...

In the fundamentalist Christian circles in which I was raised, we often joked about the Sadducees. They were “sad, you see” ...

the regions of PISIDIA & LYCAONIA Antioch, Lystra, Derbe, Iconium - cities visited by Barnabas & Paul in Southern Galatia (Acts ... the cities of the seven churches of Revelation (Rev 1:11 ...

Was it indeed important that churches established mutual responsibility ... The Apostle Paul and his opponents in Galatia, who say, "Wait a minute, Paul told you a very simplified gospel, it ...

The remains of two other churches lay near this basilica ... who incorporated Selge into the province of Galatia. Afterward, Selge provided timber for Roman shipbuilding, floating logs down ...

13For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it; 14and I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people ...

Unity does not necessarily mean uniformity. Many of the letters in the New Testament deal with divisions in the earliest churches. Corinth was a mess of permissiveness; Galatia was tempted into ...

He wrote to the church at Galatia, “Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule – to the Israel of God” (Galatians 6:16). His idea was that circumcision is now spiritual, and the idea of the spiritual ...

He headed to Caesarea, visiting Jerusalem, Antioch, Galatia, Phrygia, Colossae, Laodicea and other provinces of Asia Minor to support the established churches and plant new one. Paul returned to ...

Mainstream Christianity’s attitudes about sex have always been complicated—and its institutions might even be able to evolve.