Empire Baptized: How the Church Embraced What Jesus Rejected (Second-Fifth Centuries) Religion_ Christian Life and the study questions interspersed

and the study questions interspersed through the text are short

and brings theoretical questions alive by tying them to realities like 9/11

but devoid of any meter or typical poetic structure—and yet they are not strictly prose either

He has had plays produced in Omaha and New York and has acted in theatre productions nationwide

who describes himself as an Orthodox Christian and who lives in the Netherlands

Empire Baptized: How the Church Embraced What Jesus Rejected (Second-Fifth Centuries) Religion_ Christian Life and the study questions interspersedBook of the Year, Reform Magazine (UK) "Wes Howard Brook has performed a great service with Empire Baptized. He explains how the transition in Christianity from Jesus's way of peace to the coercive ways of Christendom happened. An enormously enlightening account that helps us better understand our present dilemmas". Ted Grimsrud, author of The Good War That Wasn't And Why It Matters: The Moral Legacy of World War II; Senior Professor of Peace