Latter-day Saint historian Dean Jessee was a ‘humble, dedicated disciple of Christ,’ his longtime colleague Ronald Esplin ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fostering faith and grappling with complicated Latter-day Saint history are not mutually exclusive conversations. So suggests the agenda of a conference hosted by The Church of Jesus Christ of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each Sunday, a congregation gathers at the Reformed Church of Shawangunk, much like their predecessors did nearly 300 years ago. The historic church complex on Hoagerburgh Road just south of 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 ...

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