
Episode #2
How Did the Church Become the Church?
<p>How did a movement become an assembly, and how did an assembly become the Church?</p> <p>About eighty years after the crucifixion of Jesus, the Roman governor Pliny the Younger had two enslaved Christian women tortured because he believed their bodies might reveal the movement's secrets. History did not preserve their names. It preserved the question their lives leave behind.</p> <p>In Episode II of Message From the Margins, Father Rich Vitale traces the Church from Jesus and the first disciples through the end of the second century. We enter the homes where Christians gathered, follow the...



