June 29 marks the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. The New Testament, of course, portrays Peter as a Galilean Jew, a fisherman, who became an early disciple of Jesus. He is remembered as being foremost ...

Recently, I interacted with someone who believes that the apostle Paul was not really an apostle. He argued that the earliest Christians didn’t accept Paul’s authority. Views like this one seem to ...

Jesus is the mystery that embodied the presence of God in the world. Peter and Paul were charged with conveying that mystery faithfully to the world. Jesus is the Christ, God’s anointed One, while ...

While preaching in Thessalonica in ancient Macedonia and modern-day northern Greece, the Apostle Paul received a rather negative reception from many of the Jews. His next stop was approximately 45 ...

Communism or Christianity? Given their origins, we might quickly conclude that these worldviews are irreconcilable, and they might be. Yet, they have one thing in common, which might be the reason for ...

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Millennia-old inscriptions uncovered in a region tied to the Apostle Paul are shedding new light on how ancient people practiced religion nearly 2,000 years ago. A recent study examined nine newly ...