Church

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• SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  3/10/19
  

  God once opposed interracial marriage, too

  by Jonathon Zimmerman

  The Methodist Church turned away from human equality last week. It's on the wrong side of history, but it will right itself soon enough.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/11/19
  

  What lessons can the clergy sex abuse crisis draw from a 4th-century church schism?

  by Cavan W. Concannon

  Known as the Donatist controversy, it caused a schism that lasted for centuries and offers a parallel for thinking about the impact of these crises on contemporary Christian communities today.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/6/19
  

  The History of Sexism in the Southern Baptist Church

  by Susan M. Shaw

  Recent media reports have revealed decades of abuse by Southern Baptist pastors. Here is the history behind the reports.

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• SOURCE: Time
  3/5/19
  

  Pope Francis Says Secret Archives On Holocaust-Era Pope Pius XII Will Be Opened Early

  “The church is not afraid of history,” Pope Francis said, announcing the move in a speech to members of the Vatican’s Secret Archives. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/20/19
  

  The Catholic Church is bursting with secrets. Investigating one will unravel them all.

  by Garry Wills

  Secrecy in one clerical area intersects with secrecy in others. 

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• SOURCE: BBC
  6-21-14
  

  Berlin House of One: The first church-mosque-synagogue?

  The House of One, as it is being called, will be a synagogue, a church and a mosque under one roof.

• SOURCE: Archaeology News Network
  4-8-13
  

  Restoration starts on world’s first cave church

  The Turkish Islamic government of Premier Recel Tayyp Erdogan will kick start the restoration of the St. Peter's Cave in Antakya, the world's oldest church carved into a mountainside. According to Christian tradition, the first of the apostles celebrated the first mass here 2,000 years ago and about a millennium ago the Crusaders turned it into a chapel.The renovation has started, according to Turkish press reports, under the direction of the Museum of Antakya which has jurisdiction over the cave church of St. Peter, who was the first bishop of Antioch after leaving Jerusalem and before travelling to Rome. The church is carved into Mount Silpius which dominates ancient Antioch on the Orontes, once the 'queen of the East' and one of the three capitals of the Mediterranean with Rome and Constantinople. Today it lies on the outskirts of the Turkish town of Antakya, close to the border with Syria and its bloody civil war. According to the Turkish opposition, Jihadist militia transit through this area to cross the border into Syria. The cave is 13-metres deep and seven-meters high and was at risk of collapse. The mountain around it is crumbling in a number of areas....