Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New Jersey minister welcoming members of the KKK into his church in 1923. Bettmann via Getty ...

A statue in Wittenberg's market square depicts Martin Luther with a copy of the New Testament, which he translated into German. ((DMN file / German National Tourist Board/The Washington Post) ) "What, ...

In the Religious Landscape Study (RLS), we group Protestant respondents into one of three “traditions” – the evangelical tradition, mainline tradition or the historically Black Protestant tradition – ...

Anne of Cleves, played by Dana Hurfurth in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light on MASTERPIECE With politics in disarray and another of Henry VIII’s wives tragically shuffling off her mortal coil in ...

In an essay titled “The United States of Lyncher­dom” (1901), Mark Twain, in his familiar half-serious fashion, offered up a plan to put an end to American racial violence. “Let us import American ...

Henry VIII was brought up as a devout Catholic. In the early years of his reign he attended mass five times a day and his most trusted adviser was the head of the Catholic Church in England, Cardinal ...