Someone just sent me this short article from the Daily Beast by church historian Candida Moss: "Nero, the Execution of Peter and Paul, and the Biggest Fake News in Early Christian History." Basically, it's about how Christians really weren't persecuted by Nero as part...
Candida Moss
Review of Candida Moss’s Book, The Myth of Persecution
A book of this nature is a bit tangential to what I normally do on this blog, but this book has gotten a lot of recent attention. In fact, it's own history is a good object lesson. When Moss's book was published months ago, the popular media picked up on it right away...