An attempt to examine the church’s history through its architecture suffers from narrow understandings of “church” and “history” alike. My own church has a stone structure by a creek in Johnson City, ...

For more than a century, the Catholic Church financed its expansion and its institutions with profits made from the purchase and sale of people they enslaved. This chapter of Church history has only ...

Settlers from Kentucky made the trek north to the Greenwood area, lured by the prospect of good land and a chance to build ...

First Presbyterian Church, on the corner of First Avenue South and South Ninth Street in Escanaba, has stood in its place ...

My new book concerns the iconoclasm struggles of the eighth and ninth centuries, the battle over whether to venerate or reject sacred images. When I began this project, I knew I would be addressing ...

Church history is a combination of history and theology. We examine Christianity, Christians and churches as well as religious movements and phenomena – the dynamics of the past that continue to shape ...

SALT LAKE CITY— The Church History Museum unveiled a 150-piece art exhibition on Thursday as part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' 13th International Art Competition. The ...

Before Lawrence Rodgers became pastor of Second Baptist Church of Detroit, he studied the church's proud history. That ...

(The Conversation) — With religious affiliation on the decline, continuing racism and increasing income inequality, some scholars and activists are soul-searching about the Black church’s role in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Churches have always been a staple in the Black community. They not only served as a place of worship, but also as a gathering place for civil rights meetings, a schoolhouse for children and with ...