Latest Episodes
How Could Miracles Convert the Empire When Miracles Don't Happen?
Read by Ken Teutsch.
Why Christian Miracles Converted the Empire
Bart continues his discussion of how Christianity took over the Roman world, and offers his own explanation—miracles. Read by Steve McCabe.
Superior Health Care as an Explanation for the Spread of Christianity?
Bart asks if it could have been the way that early Christians cared for their sick and dying that made the early church attractive...
A Modern "Common Sense" About What Made Christianity Attractive to Converts
Bart asks why Christianity spread as rapidly as it did in its early days, and explores the possibility that it might have been the...
What an Ancient Enemy of Christianity Said About Why It Was Successful
Celsus assailed the early Christians in a rather telling way, Bart argues. Read by John Paul Middlesworth.
How Did Christianity Succeed? An Older View That Many People Still Have
Edward Gibbon's history of ancient Rome had a traditional view of what lead to the spread of Christianity, but it also contained influential insights....