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, ...

(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 ...

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 ...

The history of the Catholic Church so far spans about 2,000 years. That’s a wide swath of history, a vast amount of time, and an organization that covers the entire world. The Church has been at the ...

The Church of the Good Shepherd in Wilmington received a historical plaque from the Historic Wilmington Foundation. The church, with origins dating back to the late 19th century, has a history of ...

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 ...

Pope Francis looks at a painted image of the Great Wall of China during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican May 1, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) The Pontifical ...

Charles W. Short overcame the odds and got a church built in his newly plotted community of Fernbank in 1877. He was told by the Rev. Thomas Yocum of Christ Church that he would never get a church in ...

NORTH BEND, Neb. (KOLN) - From stained glass windows to incredible woodwork, the majority of the artwork in St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church dates back to when the church was built in 1916. “I’m ...

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 ...