The student of the New Testament should be primarily an historian. The centre and core of all the Bible is history. Everything else that the Bible contains is fitted into an historical climax. The ...

Houses of worship have always been spaces for organizing in the Black faith tradition. It’s essential to reflect on the pivotal role these sacred spaces played in shaping the narrative of African ...

Q: What are the origins of true faith? What paths can lead one to certainty about one’s faith? – D A: Faith – all faith – begins as a response to three facts about human existence. Faith is the ...

For anyone attending a contemporary African American worship service, the experience carries “an expectation of participation,” said the Rev. Derrick Hammond, pastor of Oak Valley Baptist Church in ...

There is something a bit dizzying about much of the New-York Historical Society’s exhibition “Acts of Faith: Religion and the American West.” And that turns out to be a good thing.

THAT HISTORY ISN’T FORGOTTEN. I ALWAYS TRY TO LOOK FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC REFERENCES. I WANTED TO CONVEY THE HISTORY, THE GENERATIONS IN THE FAITH GATHERING PLACE INSIDE THE HISTORIC FIRST PRESBYTERIAN ...

The week ahead brings one of the great holy days kept by many Christian communities, Pentecost Sunday, which this year falls on June 8. It is on this date that many congregations recall the sending of ...

Historical science came into its maturity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This does not mean that all the problems of a scientific historiography were settled, but at least the historians ...