Reading time: About 8-10 minutes. If you’ve been following my blog posts, you’ve noticed that most of them are focused on stimulating conversations about the origin of Christianity and its many customs. I try to avoid coming across as a professor of theology or history because that’s not what I am. I’m just an amateur […]
Who is the “Real Christian”? Reading Time: Approximately 7 minutes. This is the second installment of my four part series concerning “Real Christians,” following up on The Mysterious Paul of Tarsus. In the conclusion of my book, In Search of Christian Origins: A Timeline of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, I stated […]
Reading Time: About 4 minutes Most of us aren’t aware of the fascinating history of something we use every day—the Gregorian calendar. Pope Gregory XIII introduced it in 1582 to modify the inaccurate Julian calendar that was devised in 46 BC. Julius Caesar had introduced the Julian calendar to replace Rome’s ten-month calendar from 750 […]
Making a joyful noise There was a time when Christian churches didn’t ring bells. Bells, bell ringers, and bell towers were gradually incorporated into use over many centuries and are now current symbols of Christianity. This is a brief history of the origin and developments in the utilization of church bells. Before Christianity, pagans rang […]