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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hopewell Church of Milledgeville has been around since 1876, and now they're celebrating 150 years in the community.

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 ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints maintains a network of free museums, sites, monuments and markers for members and friends of the Church to interact with virtually or in person. These ...

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: ...

Editor’s note: This article was originally delivered as the keynote address at a Feb. 20-21 conference held at Christendom College on the theme “Eternity in Time: Thinking With the Church Through ...

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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, ...