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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The former St. Agnes Catholic Church continued to burn Saturday afternoon, as people came to remember the century-plus history of the church.

“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 ...

Over its 150-year history, the old-school DC congregation has embodied faithfulness over flashiness. In 2010, The Gospel Coalition’s website posted a video of a roundtable conversation about multisite ...

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 ...

"A History of Calvary Independent Church: The Torrey Era 1936-1963" isn't the first book Paul Hollinger has written. But at 423 pages, it's the longest. "It took six years of research and writing, ...

When Oscar Castañeda opened his church’s doors at the end of 2002, he didn’t expect thousands of uninvited guests to show up. Sanctuary Adventist Church sits in an area that Castañeda describes as ...