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Glittering liturgical objects and lavish vestments from the 17th and 18th centuries highlight the skills of European craftsmen from that period as well as the religious import of the church to which they were gifted.

On a Saturday evening in 1838, a young Illinois state legislator ascended the pulpit of his hometown Baptist church to deliver a lecture before the Springfield Young Men’s Lyceum.

Christian pop star Amy Grant and her family will regain control of the downtown Nashville church founded by her great-grandfather, according to a settlement approved by a Tennessee state court on Wednesday.

The architects of The Altar—working on their first commission of this sort—found inspiration in churches and nightclubs.

But the underlying report on the church’s “manpower problem” paints too gloomy a picture.