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 ...

With the 250th anniversary of the United States this year, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The relationship between the Christian Church and the slave trade reveals both shocking complicity and enlightened humanity. How should the Church come to terms with this polarised facet of its ...

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, ...

The deteriorating health of Pope Francis has led to the worldwide speculation regarding his possible successor. The most mentioned names are a cardinal from Africa and an Asian cardinal, Cardinal ...