The premier museum on Maryland’s history has hired a curator to focus on one of the state’s proudest claims to fame: its profile as a haven for faith traditions. The Maryland Center for History and ...

Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision in Carson v. Makin highlights America’s complicated religious history. The nation’s highest court correctly held that Maine violated the US Constitution’s First ...

Events from this week in Christian history include the birth of Henry Venn, the exiling of Athanasius of Alexandria and the death of Cotton Mather.

This valuable addition to the literature on American religious liberalism tells how Catholics and Protestants in Los Angeles drew upon the Social Gospel tradition, the Black power movement, and ...

First Congregational Church on East Broad Street in downtown Columbus was home to Washington Gladden, who was a religious leader committed to social justice, and he called on city leaders to treat ...

As we prepare to celebrate the founding of this nation, let’s keep this in mind: Religious liberty is fundamental to American society. It protects freedom of conscience, allowing individuals to live ...

In a stunning turn of events, archaeologists in Frankfurt, Germany, have uncovered a 1,800-year-old silver amulet, believed to be the earliest known evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. This ...

A staunch champion of pluralism, he was described in Time magazine as “the most influential living interpreter of religion in the U.S.” By Sam Roberts Martin E. Marty, a pre-eminent religious ...

When ninth-grade schoolchildren in Kyrgyzstan began classes this year, they discovered a new subject in the curriculum: the History of the Development of Religions. President Sadyr Japarov laid out ...