Robert Muren's wife, Elizabeth, learned the familiar tales of the Bible as a child attending Sunday school in Honduras, but parables and partial plot lines weren't enough. She wanted the whole story.

This is the 33rd entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. In this entry Peter reports the Gentile response to the Gospel and his decision to baptize Gentiles to the ...

St. Peter was a fisherman. Fishing nets and tilapia were his daily reality. Born without distinction in a backwater of the Roman Empire, he presumably would have lived and died in total obscurity, had ...

Hidden inscriptions on a mosaic found in what is called the ‘Church of the Apostles’ are believed to provide solid evidence that what is now el-Araj in northern Israel is the lost biblical city of ...

“And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven.” ...

As the NBC miniseries continues, it makes use of some texts outside Acts—but only some. Peter and Paul loom so large in the history of the Church, and are so frequently linked in the traditions of the ...