Attack on LDS Church harkens back to its early history of religious persecution

For LDS Church members, a history of persecution is newly relevant after the mass shooting and arson targeting a church in Michigan last Sunday.
Christianity Today

The Opposite of Abuse Is Care

In an age of spiritual abuse scandals, the early church offers a positive model of pastoral authority. Americans buy millions of self-help books each year, but we, the children of (post)modernity, are ...
The Digital Universe

New Church History Museum exhibit features recently acquired documents, artifacts

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 ...
Newsweek

Archaeologists Reveal Early Christian Church With ‘Surprising’ Crypts

An international team of archaeologists has revealed a "remarkable" early Christian church in Egypt, thought to be more than 1,600 years old, that contains a set of "surprising" human remains. The ...
Christianity Today

Singleness Lessons I Learned from the Early Church

The history of Christian celibacy is more complicated than we’d like to think. Lately, Christians have cast their minds and social media musings back to the early church on the topics of singleness ...
Time

Sects: A Text from the Early Church

Christian faith proclaims that Jesus was God’s divine son. But church historians have long known that certain Jewish followers of Christ, in the early decades after his death, regarded him as merely ...
Wall Street Journal

The Church, the Market and Economic History

In his review of my book “Free Market: The History of an Idea” (Sept. 10), Barton Swaim speculates that I have “read a book or two about asceticism in the early Church and concluded that Christians ...
National Catholic Reporter

On women deacons, the Catholic Church has to remember its own history

Winston Churchill famously said, "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." If the Catholic Church forgets history, it is simply doomed. Pope Francis recently issued a letter "On the Renewal ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Latter-day Saints have never been a ‘perfect’ people — church history conference tackles tough questions head-on

Fostering faith and grappling with complicated Latter-day Saint history are not mutually exclusive conversations. So suggests the agenda of a conference hosted by The Church of Jesus Christ of ...
The Digital Universe

Community of Christ transfers sacred sites, articles to the Church

Ownership of sacred sites transferred from theCommunity of Christ toThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a $192 million sale. “I hadn’t envisioned something this all encompassing,” Casey ...