The early church, during the time of Paul and Titus, had many things stacked against her.  Christians were considered an odd and sometimes dangerous minority in the first-century Greek and Roman world.  People were suspicious of them.  For one, Christians were notorious for being unwilling to worship Caesar and theContinue Reading

The sheep in the churches on the island of Crete were surrounded by dangerous animals.  One of Crete’s poet-prophets, Epimenides, once joked that the absence of wild beasts on the island could be explained by the presence of humans.  Cretans were known for being lovers of money, viciously greedy, liarsContinue Reading