What Is an American?

The narrow, legal answer is straightforward: An American is a citizen of the United States, born or naturalized. That ...
A passport can inform which government recognizes us on paper. But it doesn’t tell us what holds the nation together, what binds disparate strangers into a people.
Leo will commemorate the 1,700th anniversary with Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians.
In 1906, tens of thousands of Jewish parents in New York’s Lower East Side and Brooklyn kept their children home from school ...
Around one in six people in Northern Ireland belong to the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI), one of three main Protestant churches, while 42% identify as Catholic, in a region with a violent ...
In the whole history of the Orthodox Church in America, this has never been seen,” a priest said about the surge of young men ...
The Protestant Church in the Netherlands is investigating whether mediation with the perpetrator, aimed at recovery, can be ...
At the Council of Nicaea in 325, the Emperor Constantine summoned bishops from around the Roman Empire. The council hashed ...
Some of the fastest-growing churches in Africa belong to the conservative group that announced a break from one of the ...
A Berlin Protestant minister said she conducted a “poly wedding” for four men at a summer pop-up wedding event outside a ...
Senior officials with a historic Protestant fraternal group based in Northern Ireland fired off complaint letters to King ...