Some of the most surprising facts about Christianity are among the oldest. Believers probably did not choose the name “Christian”; it was first used of them in a Syrian city, and Roman crowds once shouted that they were atheists. By 2020 about 2.3 billion people carried that name, more than belonged to any other faith. The name is a good place to start, because it probably began as other people’s word for us. “The disciples were called Christians first in…

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