Early Christian discipleship around money, wealth, and charity

Marriage, family, divorce, and adultery in early Christianity

Pliny, Roman governor of Bithynia in the early second century, asks for advice on how to deal with the Christian movement

A small taste of what it was like to be part of the early Christian church

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The Christian faith denied a central organizing principle of the Roman state.

What did it feel like to be a follower of the Way at the very beginning?

In the late second-century work The Instructor, Clement of Alexandria has thoughts about how Christians ought to eat dinner

Good marriage and parenting according to John Chrysostom in the late fourth century

Some of the events shaping this issue in context

Christian formation and the life of prayer in the early church

Egeria, a woman from western Europe, traveled to Jerusalem

Why Christians presented such a huge challenge to the Roman state 

Christian commitment to asceticism grew in a newly legalized faith

Life in early Christian cities

Reflect on life among the earliest followers of Christ

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