Caroline Johnson Hodge is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at College of the Holy Cross. She is the author of If Sons, Then Heirs: A Study of Kinship and Ethnicity in the Letters of Paul and coeditor of “The One Who Sows Bountifully”: Essays in Honor of Stanley K. Stowers.

“With vividness and clarity, Johnson Hodge directs our attention to the elusive Christian households of the second and third centuries CE. In this formative period, the creative domestic rituals of ordinary people—including women and enslaved persons—prepare the way for the expansion of Christianity in the better-attested decades after Constantine. Highly readable and provocative in the best way.”—Dana Robinson, author of Food, Virtue, and the Shaping of Early Christianity

Caroline Johnson Hodge is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at College of the Holy Cross. She is the author of If Sons, Then Heirs: A Study of Kinship and Ethnicity in the Letters of Paul and coeditor of “The One Who Sows Bountifully”: Essays in Honor of Stanley K. Stowers.

“With vividness and clarity, Johnson Hodge directs our attention to the elusive Christian households of the second and third centuries CE. In this formative period, the creative domestic rituals of ordinary people—including women and enslaved persons—prepare the way for the expansion of Christianity in the better-attested decades after Constantine. Highly readable and provocative in the best way.”—Dana Robinson, author of Food, Virtue, and the Shaping of Early Christianity

Caroline Johnson Hodge is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at College of the Holy Cross. She is the author of If Sons, Then Heirs: A Study of Kinship and Ethnicity in the Letters of Paul and coeditor of “The One Who Sows Bountifully”: Essays in Honor of Stanley K. Stowers.

“With vividness and clarity, Johnson Hodge directs our attention to the elusive Christian households of the second and third centuries CE. In this formative period, the creative domestic rituals of ordinary people—including women and enslaved persons—prepare the way for the expansion of Christianity in the better-attested decades after Constantine. Highly readable and provocative in the best way.”—Dana Robinson, author of Food, Virtue, and the Shaping of Early Christianity