Love in the Time of Plague — How Suffering Birthed a Church

Part 4, Pentecost Lessons from my reading of Rodney Stark's "The Rise of Christianity"

If you’re catching up, here’s Part 3 of the series, and you can find a full list here.

“Had classical society not been disrupted and demoralized by these catastrophes, Christianity might never have become so dominant a faith.”
— Rodney Stark, The Rise of Christianity

In Part 3, we examined how the early Church expanded through the strength of everyday rela…