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Christian History Magazine—Issue 47: The Apostle Paul & His Times is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paved roads connected Britons with Arabs. Roman naval patrols deterred Mediterranean piracy, expediting sea passage. Corinth, Ephesus, and Rome grew into affluent cities full of intellectuals and philosophers. Sophisticated, multi-cultural, connected—first century Roman society was perfectly arranged to facilitate the spread of Christianity. Enter Paul of Tarsus. Open this issue of Christian...

It is possible that Paul’s “relative” Lucius is Luke, the author of the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. On his second missionary journey, Paul may have gone to Troas (where Luke lived—or at least where he joined Paul) because he knew a relative he could stay with there (Acts 16:8, 11). What type of fish did Paul eat? Probably not catfish. Catfish was the largest native fish of the Sea of Galilee (sometimes weighing up to 20 pounds), but Jewish dietary laws would have prevented at least the early