Witness to the Inception

A view of Christianity from the beginning

Rome, 112 (fourteenth year of Trajan’s reign)

Roman Mosaic, 1st Century. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons

It’s a sultry summer night and you are conversing with friends from your couch after dinner. The kithara player was quite good, but the singer left much to be desired. The five courses were plentiful in quantity if not variety, and the cherries went especia…