A saddled, 1,400-pound Longhorn steer stood in a grassy courtyard last Sunday morning at First Baptist Church, ready to pose for pictures with the congregation's young and old. Several men nearby ...

Archaeologists in Colonial Williamsburg uncovered the foundations of First Baptist Church, founded in 1776 by free and enslaved Blacks. Using ground-penetrating radar, they found 62 historic graves ...

Rev. Johnathan Bryson has become the first Black pastor in the 150-year history of First Baptist Church of Gastonia. Bryson, ...

If you grew up in the 20th century, it may seem like we can’t already be having centennial celebrations for events from the 1920s. When I first started writing this column in 1992, it wasn’t unusual ...