Nightwing meets Wolverine, Harley hectors Hulk, Constantine curses Doctor Strange, and Static and Ms. Marvel cross paths in the 64-page one-shot.| The Beat
by David Ramirez We are blessed to be able to celebrate the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea this year. The lion’s share of attention will be rightly paid to the Nicene Creed, the triune nature of God, and heroic confessors of the faith such as Athanasius. However, we ought not overlook the man who convened the council — Imperator Caesar Flavius Valerius Constantinus Augustus. No bishop convened the council, and certainly no pope, but the ruler of the Roman Empire. In the calen...| The Lutheran Witness
By Joel Elowsky 1,700 years ago, there was a newly united Roman Empire headed by a young emperor from Serbia named Constantine. The horrific persecution of Christians under Diocletian (A.D. 303–313) had just ended, and decrees pronouncing toleration of Christians had been issued by Galerius in 311 and by Constantine I and Licinius with the Edict of Milan in 313. In 312, Constantine had made his famous defeat of Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge: During the battle, “he saw with his own eyes ...| The Lutheran Witness
“Constantine’s decisive victory on the Tiber began the process that turned Rome into a Christian nation, and at the same time sewed the seeds of its eventual collapse.”| DECISIVE HISTORY
