Water from a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries

In Rome in A.D. 165, two men named Carpus and Papylus stood before the proconsul of Pergamum, charged with the crime of being Christians. Not even torture could make them deny Christ, so they were burned alive.

In the fifth century, Melania the younger and her husband, Pinian, distributed their enormous wealth to the poor and intentionally practiced the discipline of renunciation.

In the seventeenth century, Philipp Jakob Spencer's love for the Word of God and his desire to help people apply ...