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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Reporting from Rome — After years of receiving plaudits for his upbeat, merciful brand of Roman Catholicism, Pope Francis has seen his popularity slip in the U.S. over accusations he has fumbled the ...

Women's History Month is a great time to celebrate the "mothers" of our Christian church. Until recently, few realized that early female believers shaped our church's future no less than their ...

Two lawsuits tell the story of a dispute over the property rights of a historic Oklahoma City church, in a battle that includes allegations of fraud ...

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