Religion: More Than Conquerors

See Cover: What kind of man makes a good missionary? Once, a preacher who needed an assistant decided to take a chance on a middle-aged man who was bossy, opinionated and temperamental, with a strong streak of fanaticism and an unsavory past. He turned out to have picked the greatest missionary of all time.

Saul the Pharisee, now Paul the Apostle, joined Barnabas to preach and proselytize in Antioch for a small sect of Jews who called themselves Nazarenes. When he died some 15 years later, he left behind him the firm foundations of...

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