Written by Luke the beloved physician (Col 4:14), Luke-Acts seamlessly connects the life of Jesus to the lives of the early Apostles after the resurrection. The gospel of Luke is about what Jesus ...

A - Acts 2:14,22-28 * Then Peter stood up with the Eleven ... Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and want to bring this man's blood upon us." But Peter and the apostles said in reply, ...

Reflecting on the accounts of the confirmation of the first Christians, recorded in the Acts of the Apostles and in St.

It was not even a formal sect of Judaism. Peter was the movement's first champion; in the Acts of the Apostles we hear of his mass conversions and miraclemaking—healing the lame, raising the ...

Thecla's story is one of many in the Apocryphal Acts which portray women giving up riches and sexual activity to follow the Apostles. She is an aristocratic woman who, despite great opposition ...

Insights from the social sciences, narratological studies, Greek and Roman rhetoric and history, and classics, set the Acts of the Apostles in its original historical, literary and social context; ...

The Holy Family, united by the Sacred Heart of Jesus, exemplifies the love that strengthens us on our journey together.

Now, if we read elsewhere in the Gospel of Luke [in]... the Acts of the Apostles, we see that Luke knows about the sect of John the Baptist. He knows that they preceded the Jesus movement and he ...

In the Bible, the book called the Acts of the Apostles describes this event and how angels, described as ‘men dressed in white’, helped the apostles to understand what was happening ...

Secondly, the Holy Spirit descended upon the Church on Pentecost Sunday (Acts 2:1ff). Also after His Resurrection, Jesus appeared to the Apostles twice, each on Sunday (John 20:19 & 26).

Random acts of kindness may sound simple, but they’re almost a revolutionary act in our world. Showing kindness requires ...

Criminalization in the Acts of the Apostles lands at an ideal moment. Drawing upon sophisticated engagement with interlocking theories of racism, politics, and criminology alongside careful engagement ...