Marigold Hunt, author of A Life of Our Lord for Children, here continues the tale of Jesus and His Church by retelling for children the events reported in The A

12-year-old Christopher entreats his grandfather to tell him about Peter, Paul, and the very first Christians.

To answer the title question effectively requires more than the citing of a few texts; we must first acknowledge that the way to the answer is more difficult th

Did Jesus intend to found a church separate from Judaism? Who were the very first followers of Jesus? And how did a clash between two families--the family of Je

Describes the social setting of the early Christians, looks at the Greek and Roman ethical traditions, and explains the moral formation of the beginning Christi