Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much controversy as polygamy, called plural or celestial marriage within the ...

Spencer W. McBride explains the historical and spiritual significance of the newly acquired documents to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. McBride is a historian with the Joseph Smith ...

Three books seek to make history accessible. Kevin DeYoung, a conservative Presbyterian pastor with a PhD in history, offers ...

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 ...

Panoramic illustration of the four covers of the Saints series next to each other. The final volume was published on Oct. 29. (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) On Oct. 29, The Church ...

Francis calls for a genuine pursuit of historical truth that avoids both triumphalism and revisionism, connecting Church history with that of all of society. In a letter presented at the Vatican on ...

Soldiers in Revolutionary War uniforms participate in a military parade to commemorate the U.S. Army's 250th Birthday in Washington June 14, 2025. Credit: OSV News photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters. What ...

Pope Francis has published a letter addressed especially to priests in formation to promote the renewal of the study of Church history, emphasizing its importance in better interpreting reality. At ...

Some Protestants believe that the Catholic Church is not just spiritually dangerous—it’s also a threat to the liberty (and even the lives!) of those who challenge its authority. Fringe fundamentalists ...

The Atlanta Georgia Temple (shown here in a photograph from the LDS Media Library) fulfilled Elder Callis’s prophecy. But temples in Florida itself — relatively soon to include one precisely in ...

Usury was roundly condemned for most of Christian history. Today it’s practiced without comment—but the witness of Scripture never changed. John Mark Comer’s new book is pastoral, insightful, gracious ...