Moses of Crete, The Jewish Messiah of the fifth Century
Moses of Crete was hailed as the new Moses by many Jews of the fifth Century but instead led his followers to disaster on the island of Crete. He had promised to part the Mediterranean Sea - just like...
1 Juni 202416min
Early Christian Councils and slavery
Slavery - one of the prime examples of man’s inhumanity to man and something that was obviously practised widely during the period of early Christianity. But what did the early Church have to say abou...
26 Juni 202328min
Slavery and the early Church fathers
The regulation of slavery in the Old Testament and the implicit acceptance of the practice in the New Testament is arguably the most contentious issue in the Bible. You would think Jesus, supposedly ...
2 Juni 202332min
Celsus on the 'resurrection'
Celsus criticizes the Bible resurrection stories as well as the crucifixion accounts. Celsus, a second Century pagan philosopher was a strong opponent of Christianity and wrote a powerful critique of ...
27 Mars 202337min
Paganism in 12th Century Europe
Paganism in twelfth-century Europe. Not all of Europe was Christian in the twelfth century. The Baltic area populated by the Wendish people, the Pomeranians, Prussians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanian...
21 Feb 202348min
Persecution of Catholics by the Vandals. Part 1 Rise of the Arian Christian Vandals
The Vandal persecution of Catholics during the time of the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa. Part 1 charts their rise and migration from German lands to Africa during which time the Vandals converted to...
4 Dec 202244min
Cosmas the 6th Century Monk on the Genesis story
Cosmas the monk on Genesis. Cosmas Indicopleustes was a 6th Century Byzantine monk who wrote the book 'Christian Topography' in which he defends the concept of a flat Earth agains the pagan theories o...
30 Sep 202220min
The tree of Thor
The destruction of the tree of Thor and its associated grove, an important pagan centre for worship in Hesse, Germany by St. Boniface was arguably the start of the large-scale conversion of the German...
14 Sep 202222min
