Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much controversy as polygamy, called plural or celestial marriage within the ...

Protestants often claim that the Church that Jesus founded was the “Christian Church,” not the Catholic Church. The biblical evidence cited for this claim is found in the Acts of the Apostles: “So ...

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, ...

(1) The religious associations of pagans, i.e. of those who had or have no clear knowledge of the one true God. Among them every people has its own gods, religion coincides with nationality and lives ...

An open-air Mass in Brazil on May 17, 1888, commemorating the abolition of slavery. (Alamy) It was the morning of May 24, 1888, and a large, ethnically diverse crowd waited in the Sala Ducale of the ...

“175 years seems like a good long time for this church building to have been in existence. But when you consider that worship has been taking place in this place for 300 years (give or take a few ...

In 1736, downtown Lancaster was a woodland. Orange Street was a dirt path, King Street was a wagon path and only 200 people lived in Lancaster city. There were a couple houses that dotted the ...

The history of Christian celibacy is more complicated than we’d like to think. Lately, Christians have cast their minds and social media musings back to the early church on the topics of singleness ...

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 ...

A survey of the history of Christianity starting with the second century Mediterranean world, with particular attention to the role of women in the Christian movement and the encounters between ...