Ancient Christianities, Paula Fredriksen’s study of the religion’s first 500 years, features saints, sects and ‘intolerant ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

St. Ephrem is a Doctor of the Church. He was a great writer of homilies, hymns and poems and helped to fight Gnosticism and Arianism by his writings. Not much is known about his early life.

Cities have always been rough places. When too many people are crowded together, there’s no telling what can go wrong: riots, vandalism and even murder. And when people with dearly held diverse ...