Richard T. Hughes

RICHARD T. HUGHES is Distinguished Professor of Religion at Messiah College and is author or editor of seventeen books including Reviving the Ancient Faith: The Story of Churches of Christ in America, Myths America Lives By, and Christian America and the Kingdom of God.

America and the One True Church: What My Church Taught Me about My Country

Articles/Essays – Volume 46, No. 2

Precious few Americans outside the South know much about my church—the Church of Christ—and that’s a shame, since it illumines so well the character of the American nation. Because my church is relatively small (c.…