Over the Easter weekend, a friend, quite unwittingly I’ve no doubt, passed along an Easter greeting quoting John Chrysostom who wrote that “Christ is risen and death is conquered. Christ is risen and the demons have fallen.” I say it was passed unwittingly because my friend did not know or suspect that Chrysostom, the “golden …
Month: April 2026
Was the Cenacle in Jerusalem Really Used by First-Century Christians?
Among the Christian holy sites in Jerusalem stands one that is sometimes forgotten. It certainly does not attract the barely negotiable lines encountered at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The structure I am speaking of is the Upper Room of the Last Supper, often referred to as the Cenacle or, in Latin, the Coenaculum …
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David Christian Clausen 