HSTL Modular launches a national Modular Church Buildings program to help churches and their members create more spaces to handle the needs of growing congregations. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., November 12 ...

In the summer of 1903, a newspaper headline boasted of what would become my congregation’s building: “Plans Are Here: They Show the German Reformed Church to Be Fine.” A year later, as the building ...

In all three of the congregations I served as a pastor, there was never a task I approached with more ambivalence than attending a meeting of the property committee. To put it charitably, the people ...

As churches across the country close or consolidate, more religious properties are hitting the market—some with plans to become homes. But buying a church is anything but traditional real estate. “The ...

An attempt to examine the church’s history through its architecture suffers from narrow understandings of “church” and “history” alike. My own church has a stone structure by a creek in Johnson City, ...