They died singing hymns and refusing to renounce Christ. The Blessed Martyrs of Orange gave their lives on an 1,800-year-old stage.

Following retirement of Forrest Harris, Sr., after 26 years as American Baptist president, Sunday School Publishing Board exec to serve in interim.

While most U S Protestant churches have policies in place to address significant misbehavior by members, formalized church discipline is rarely practiced, according to newly released data from

Nearly 100 American men and women from the United States are currently being considered for sainthood. And many Catholics hope that Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pope, will soon beatify or canonize some new American saints — perhaps even the first African American saint.

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, was one of the earliest and most iconic conflicts in America's ongoing culture war.

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding light on the church's support for ending slavery

In 2020, 22% of Americans identified as Catholic and in 2024 the population remained similar at 21%. The Protestant population also only slightly declined from 46% to 45%.

During both of his campaigns, current President Donald J. Trump aggressively courted Christians, netting support from 48% of Protestants, including 72% of white evangelicals, and 52% of Catholics.

Alleging that Latter-day Saints are neither white nor Christian alleviates some of the tension, and possibly some of the guilt, inherent in how they were viewed by their fellow countrymen. "Americans are supposed to be religiously tolerant, so you frame it as: they aren't Christian," Givens noted.

In the early 20th century, New York City faced an epidemic of abandoned babies, while mining communities lacked resources to keep babies alive. A Catholic charity in New York ran “orphan trains.”

The University of Wisconsin system, now a network of progressive education and civic engagement, once echoed the same settler logics that underpinned the American occupation of Native land. At the time of Hawaii’s annexation, Wisconsin was less than 50 years removed from its own violent displacement of Ho-Chunk and Ojibwe peoples.