Misery and Mercy
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It is difficult to overstate how unpleasant it was to live in a city in the ancient Mediterranean world. As historian Rodney Stark documents in his book The Triumph of Christianity, the earliest generations of Jesus’ followers tended to live and serve in urban areas like Antioch, Ephesus, Corinth and Philippi. These places were more crowded, crime-infested, and disease-ridden than… Read more »
