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 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 ...

A Greek term for reminiscence is anamnesis, which means to look back to the past in order to be informed in the present. St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Seattle is practicing anamnesis this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

As church bells chime and peal the New Year, historians say the looting of more than 150,000 bells during World War II left ...