With the advent of Christianity, the need to take care of the outcast, the impoverished, and widows and orphans assumed an unprecedented importance in the Mediterranean world. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
Dr. Ehrman discusses the possibility that Mary Magdalene was the first to see the risen Christ, and she might thus qualify as the founder...
Dr. Ehrman recounts the story of Esther, the basis of the Jewish festival of Purim. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
How the Bible can help those in pain. Read by Ken Teutsch.