There is no doubt that the audience the First Epistle of Peter (1 Peter) had in mind was suffering persecution. Whether it was from Nero before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE or during the ...

The basis for this Protestant view is found in the New Testament book of 1 Peter: But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare ...

But Peter Wolfkamp’s career could have gone in quite a different direction if he had followed the path he started down in early adulthood by joining the Catholic priesthood, an idea he once “t ...