Codex Sinaiticus

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 Posted in Books, History, Online resources | No Comments »

This is going to make me sound super-nerdy, but I found this cool website the other day. In 1844 a guy called Constatin von Tischendorf found a 4thC copy of the entire Bible in a monastery in Sinai. Since then it ...

Great Debates: where to read more

Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in Church, History | No Comments »

After our series on Great Debates at Tuesday Hub, a few people have asked me what they could read to find out more. If you're interested in reading some church history, here's two titles I recommend (and yes, camp people, ...

Why these books and not those?

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in Books, Church, History | No Comments »

Last Tuesday at Hub we explored the way in which the New Testament formed, as churches shared documents, built their libraries, and decided which books they would read in church and trust for teaching. But how did the churches know whether ...

Dead guys who dominate: Polycarp

Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Posted in Church, History | No Comments »

One of the letters that Ignatius sent on his way to Rome was to Polycarp, the young leader of the church in Smyrna (now Izmir in Turkey). In the letter, Ignatius encouraged Polycarp to take seriously his responsibilities as a ...

Dead guys who dominate: Ignatius

Friday, March 20th, 2009 Posted in Church, History | 1 Comment »

Around AD 107, Ignatius, a church leader in Antioch, was condemned to death by Roman authorities. At that time, it was illegal to be a Christian in the Roman Empire, because Christianity was opposed to the official religion of the ...