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 ...

How as a scholar and a historian do you reconcile studying the Bible in a rationalist way with your Christian faith? I suppose it's an important part of my theological commitment that I believe that ...

Across much of the modern world, faith is quietly changing shape. For centuries, religion functioned as a visible public identity, reinforced by shared rituals, buildings, and social expectations.

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 ...

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.

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 ...