Just as surely as the wheat springs up from soil, so too do the weeds with it, and such was the case in the early Church.
As Christianity began to take root, grow, and produce fruit, so also did false expressions of it, heresies, riddled with erroneous beliefs and errors – and, one of the key ways in which these cults and sects spread their tainted teachings was through song.
Enter the terrific trio of Ephrem, Hilary, and Ambrose, who successfully beat them at their own game. Here to tell us about this exciting, though tense moment, in the early history of the Church, is our guest Mike Aquilina, author of How the Choir Converted the World.