Table of the Poor

Church historian Bryan Litfin has written a very interesting novel that helpfully depicts what life was like for Christians in Rome. In The Conqueror, the first volume of Litfin’s “Constantine’s Empire” trilogy, a Christian girl named Flavia is speaking to a young pagan named Rex about the difference between pagan worship and Christian worship. Rex […]

This article’s title is not my own. It was the title of a post written by Andrew Wilson of King’s Church London at the “Think Theology” website.[1] It is a fascinating title and a fascinating piece. In it, Wilson quotes Martin Charlesworth and Natalie Williams from their book, A Church for the Poor. They write: Social action requires leadership

Jeannine Olson has written1 of the history of deacons in general terms as (a) first a body through whom charity and benevolence were dispensed, (b) then a body that became increasingly associated with church office and, in the Catholic church, a body that became a stepping stone to the priesthood, and (c) a body that, in