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, ...

A Greek term for reminiscence is anamnesis, which means to look back to the past in order to be informed in the present. St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Seattle is practicing anamnesis this ...

(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 ...

You can’t understand African-American history without understanding the role the black church and gospel music have played. That’s not exactly the theme of a new exhibit titled “Ebenezer Missionary ...

In 1736, downtown Lancaster was a woodland. Orange Street was a dirt path, King Street was a wagon path and only 200 people lived in Lancaster city. There were a couple houses that dotted the ...

My greatest fear is that we will fail to learn from history—specifically, the role the Christian Church has played in fostering antisemitism, up to and including the Holocaust. Religious institutions, ...

The sound of 117-year-old organ pipes flows along downtown Charleston streets each Sunday, marking the heartbeat of Mother ...

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

Boarding pupils of St. Mark's Mission in Nenana in May 1924. It is from the Drane Family Collection, courtesy of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, APRCA (UAF-1991-46-782). The Episcopal Diocese of ...