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 ...

Events from this week in Christian history include the Church of England voting to allow female bishops, the execution of ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 Bible is often discussed as a single, unchanging text, but its history is far more complex. For centuries, biblical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...