WEST BROOKFIELD — The second Concert for Soul, hosted by the George Whitefield United Methodist Church (33 West Main St.), will take place at 3 p.m. Aug. 5. The concert will feature artists Cheongmoo ...

"Works! Works! A man get to heaven by works! I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!" With these words the Rev. George Whitefield summed up his teachings during a two-hour ...

At the Saturday evening close of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary’s homecoming in South Hamilton, Mass., I asked the president to recommend a local church for worship the next morning. He offered a ...

GEORGE WHITEFIELD: AMERICA’S SPIRITUAL FOUNDING FATHER By Thomas S. Kidd Yale University Press, $38, 344 pages In the fall of 1764, George Whitefield, itinerant evangelical preacher, gave a ...

The revivalist preached, ‘Come and be married to Christ’—and sparked the Great Awakening. Editor’s note: What do you get when a charismatic thespian bumps into the Wesley brothers in college? “The ...

During its livestream of "Daniel" in more than 800 movie theaters across the United States over Labor Day weekend, Sight & Sound Theatres shared a teaser for the next Sight & Sound Films' upcoming ...

George Whitefield, Jarena Lee and Charles Finney. From John Hughes to Joseph Smith, scroll to see how different people living during America's formative years influenced the current state of religion ...

(RNS) Future evangelists -- most notably Billy Graham -- followed a pattern set by Whitefield of making the most of the media available in their time. (RNS) If YouTube had existed in the 1700s, George ...

A new biography helps us come to terms with the unsavory side of the great revivalist’s mission to America. On the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, there sits a statue of one of the school’s ...

Editor's note: This updates an earlier version of this story. NEWBURYPORT — There was an 18th century vibe Sunday for those attending Old South First Presbyterian Church as the church's founder, if ...

In his recent biography of Billy Graham, Grant Wacker nicknamed the Baptist preacher “America’s pastor.” Owing to a prolific career that began in 1949 and has now spanned nearly 70 years, which saw ...