Pope Francis has published a letter addressed especially to priests in formation to promote the renewal of the study of Church history, emphasizing its importance in better interpreting reality. At ...

DAYTON — On this Juneteenth holiday, a Dayton church is looking back at its past. The First Wesleyan Church was around while slavery was happening and when it ended. With each bell ring, it’s a ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the interior of All Saints Church on Willow Street in Plymouth, formerly Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The ceiling was painted by Antonio Severino Fadini, who was born in Brescia, Italy ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a former newspaper reporter and editor, it was a natural transition for Dot Yoder to become a church historian. Now, 35 years later, it was just as natural for the United Congregational Church at ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...