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 ...

(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 ...

In new document, the Pope says archaeology not only provides historical data but also allows theology to remain rooted in the ...

Winston Churchill famously said, "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." If the Catholic Church forgets history, it is simply doomed. Pope Francis recently issued a letter "On the Renewal ...

A historic 100-year-old Catholic church in Rock Springs has been closed and put up for sale to help fund a new parish campus.

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, ...

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 ...

Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, ...

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 ...

If anything typifies London's juxtaposition of old and new, it is what is left of All Hallows Staining in the heart of the city. Incredible photos yesterday showed how the 14th century tower of the ...