When he was 11 years old growing up in Britain, Aly Conteh visited a cemetery in northern France where British and Commonwealth soldiers from World War II were buried. Though not a “child who was into ...

Pope Francis’ call for a synodal Catholic Church is now the central pillar of his pontificate. As he declared in 2015, at a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Synod of Bishops, “The ...

On August 4, 2024, Pope Francis published a letter on the role of literature in education, which this journal has already presented. On November 21, 2024, another letter was made public, this time “on ...

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, ...

St. John 4-B Missionary Baptist Church has always been a phenomenon to the people and its community. It has been an integral and central place not only to worship but to also fellowship. Life in the ...

“Who is the central figure in this story?” asked Elder Kyle S. McKay, historian and recorder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, after recounting the story familiar to members of the ...

On the 150th anniversary of Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, a part of the church’s history has made a grand return.

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 ...

How the message of Christ resonated through the centuries, even at moments when his followers failed to keep the tune. When it comes to church history, there are two common but misguided approaches: ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — There is so much history between the walls of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has hosted funerals for Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass and opened its pews to ...

Can you see Jupiter’s moons with the naked eye? On the night of Sept. 25-26, your chances of seeing them are pretty much as good as they get. And whether you see them or not, in just trying you will ...