He and a small number of other German Protestant leaders gathered, calling themselves the Confessing Church. They issued the ...

Beyond that, no one knew much about the American bishops, especially where they stood on such crucial issues as religious liberty, ecumenism, and the place of Scripture in the Church. By the end ...

As Catholics choose sides, their ears are often attuned to those who reflect their views while shutting out the voices of ...

Jeremiah Wright, the African American minister from Chicago's Trinity Church, had denounced the United States with inflammatory language: "God damn America!" Wright's most famous parishioner was ...

Martin E. Marty, the “dean of American church historians,” died on February 25 at age 97. Born and reared in the village of West Point, Nebraska—Willa Cather country, he said—he would go ...