The early Christian communities that followed tried to recreate in a broken time that irenic moment glimpsed in today’s Gospel. They were sinners washed clean of their sins, trying to sustain ...

What early Christian communities teach us about care for the poor Kevin Clarke October 05, 2022 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a long-lost early Christian community, which sheds new light on the religion's history. Excavations conducted in the village of Samahij, Bahrain, between ...

Oil lamps decorated with menorahs and architectural evidence uncovered in the Roman city of Castulo suggest that the building ...

Although later pushed to the side, women in early Christian communities often owned the 'house churches' where congregations gathered to worship. The status of women in early Christianity has been ...

We have apparently more isolated Christian communities founded very early in Galilee. Paul's mission carried Christianity all the way over Asia Minor, present Turkey into Macedonia, into Greece ...

Simple Advent Revisited: Early Christians show us a model of how community can bring about true abundance, where resources were shared so no one lacked what was required to flourish.

The last four chapters of the book focus on the history of the emerging Christian communities in the mid-second century. Van Hagen is quite taken with the Christian community described in the Didache.

As researchers continue to study the Frankfurt Inscription, many new questions are likely to emerge. One area of particular interest is the nature of early Christian communities in Roman territories.