The history of faith in the African American community is not only about individual faith but also serves as a counter to the ...

Between 1606 and 1607, King Christian IV of Norway and Denmark sent explorers back to Greenland to renew claims on the land and a number of old sites were repopulated. When the Kingdoms of Norway and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...