Who was the first woman preacher in the Bible?
The Bible mentions a number of women who spoke in front of people. They include Priscilla, the wife of one of the Seventy Apostles named Aquilla; Mary Magdalene and the other Myrrhbearing Women who are the first to learn about ...
Tychicus of the Seventy Apostles: The Bishop of Colophon
Tychicus was one of the Seventy Apostles mentioned in the New Testament. While you might call the Twelve Apostles Jesus’ “inner circle,” the Seventy were something of an outer circle that was nevertheless important in the minis...
Apollos in the Bible: Convert, Missionary, Bishop
Everyone knows about Jesus’ Twelve Disciples, but there were also a group called “the Seventy” who were also followers of Jesus. They came from a number of different backgrounds, and ended up playing pivotal roles in the format...
Sosthenes of The Seventy Disciples - by a Christian PhD
Sosthenes is mentioned a couple times in the New Testament. He appears in the opening verse of first Corinthians as part of St. Paul’s greeting, where he calls Sosthenes “our brother”: “Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Ch...
The story of Epaphroditus, missionary of St. Paul
Epaphroditus is mentioned in Philippians 2:25 and 4:18 as one of St. Paul’s fellow missionaries. Paul was on a missionary journey around the Mediterranean, and he had several fellow missionaries under his direction. He also had...
Pastor vs. Priest: What are the differences?
Christianity is an ancient, widespread religion. Over the centuries, it has built up a wide variety of termss that can get confusing. There are pastors, bishops, ministers, deacons, vicars, cardinals, elders, and popes—to name ...
Who was Saint Longinus and what is his story?
There are many famous characters whose names aren’t recorded in the New Testament but who we know about through tradition and other extra-Biblical sources. For example, the “woman at the well” whom Jesus talks to, as recorded i...