Sister Mary Louise Putrow, left, the primary author of "Seeds of Change: A History of the Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1962-1986," and Associate Arlene Bachanov, who served as the editorial assistant, ...

A carefully curated exhibit at the Old Court House Museum preserves the faith, history and lasting influence of Vicksburg’s ...

In June, one of the most historic houses of worship in Washington County, the synagogue used by the Beth Israel Congregation, passed into history. The aging congregation with fewer members did not ...

During the 1880s, when Aurora was a very young city, the South End Mission was established to serve Christians who found walking distance to churches near the downtown area to be too far. The mission ...

Every human community has norms (unwritten, unspoken, and often unconscious rules about the "way things should be done") that govern the behavior of its members. In congregations, norms may develop as ...

In 1870, Pastor Carl Thurow, who was serving as pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, established the first Lutheran congregation in Jefferson City with the organization of Trinity Lutheran Church. Eighty ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia is known as the birthplace of America. It also has a rich Jewish-American history. One congregation has been a part of that history from the very beginning. "We are ...

A look at Brooklyn, then and now. In 1855 a group of twelve Bavarian, Dutch and Portuguese Jews gathered in a Brooklyn home to found the United Brethren Society, a mutual benefit society that pooled ...

Coal miners who formed the Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox congregation in McAdoo bought their first church from Lutherans in Kelayres and dragged it to a corner on Washington Street with a mule team.