There is a difference between worshiping Jesus and actually doing what he told us to do. I remember the documentary … More
Category: Early Christians
Six Lessons to Learn in U.S. Christianity….
We spent the last two posts reviewing an article entitled “The Six Worst Things About American Christianity” from RedLetterChristians by … More
The History of the Church….
What matters to those who look to history for important lessons is that something was lost in the fourth century … More
The Fourth Rummage Sale??…..The Emergent Church of the 21st Century
This post is about the fourth great rummage sale and that is the “Great Emergence”. In this post I am … More
A Giant Rummage Sale…
Anyone who has visited this blog in the recent past know that I am pinning great hope on the “emergent” … More
Saving Jesus — (Part 3) About the Gospels….
This is part three of my review of the book Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ … More
On Ward Christian Soldier????
Today Christian families are often also military families but at the beginnings of our religion that was definitely not the … More
Christians Doing Risky Things….
No this post is not about anything in today’s world. There are some Christians who are on evangelism missions abroad … More
Oh That Founding Father Origen…
As we have learned in several of my recent posts Origen was one of the most influential theologians in the … More
Saint to Heretic to Saint Again…..
With this post I will begin looking at some of the early church leaders. We will start with Origen. Here … More
The Early Leaders – A Study Approach…
This will be the beginning of I don’t know how many posts on the early leaders of the church. By … More
How Faith Changed….
This will probably be my last post about the early christians for a while. Next time I will begin to … More
Official Christianity….
I am going to jump ahead a little here so that I can put something into your mind before we … More
Early Church Historians…
The Future of Faith (Cox, Harvey) As we have seen, these early Christian “historians” were neither critical nor neutral. They … More
A Small Closure….
We have filled a small corner of our mosaic of church history so I will soon be moving on to … More
Early Christian Practices….
TO start this post here is a quote from Robin Myers book entitled The Underground Church – Reclaiming the Subversive Way of Jesus. … More
Were the Early Christians Unblemished??
I want to give you a quick answer up front to the question posed in the title above. The answer … More
Citizens as Foreigners…
Let’s start this post with a long quote from A People’s History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story … More
Nonviolence – Absolute Pacifism
Let’s start out this post with another quote from A People’s History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story … More
The Didache
Given the amount of weight that “correct” beliefs have with so many churches today it is hard to understand just … More
Hospitality….
Hospitality was a very important thing to the early Christians. They put it above beliefs in their understanding of Jesus. … More
Early Church Growth….
Lets look at just how much the Followers of the Way increased in membership during the Pre-Constantine years. Here is … More
Subverted Loyalty….
In this post lets revisit one of the quotes from Robin Myers’ book entitled The Underground Church – Reclaiming the Subversive Way of … More
Just Ordinary People….
For the month of July we will be studying just how the early Christians went about practicing their faith. As … More
History of the Church — More Details …
I realize that due to trying to keep the last post brief I did not fully explain the three ages … More
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