Enjoyed interview on WLRN. I have been recently interested in the disciples of Jesus that went the other way. Western Christians know about the branch via Rome. But what can you tell me about the spread to the Africa, Asia, and as far East (I hear) as India. Christianity beyond the reach of the Roman Empire. What happened when this new religion arrived I these far away place?
Well I mention in my book reports of eg the Buddhist king Gondophares being converted by St Thomas, and of St Thomas’s missionary work in India where he was allegedly murdered by Brahmins. I also mention the eunuch court official from Meroe (below Egypt) converted by Philip. The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles are worth looking at for their accounts of missionary work outside the Roman Empire.