Perpetua was a young mother when she was arrested in 203 A.D.  She had become involved with a group of Christians, and was walking with her fellow catechumens through the town of Thuburbo Minus when she was taken into custody.  The crime of these early Christians was a refusal to sacrifice to the gods on … Continue reading Perpetua and Her Companions

In 1903, a human skeleton was discovered in Gough's Cave in the Cheddar Gorge of Somerset, England.  It was an unusual skeleton, very old and bearing marks that suggested it had belonged to a man who had died from a blow to his head.  Scientists determined that this wasn't a recent murder victim at all. … Continue reading Some Thoughts about the Cheddar Man, Ray Kurzweil, and Jesus