Jonathan Pitts

The narrative has stood as an unquestioned landmark of Baltimore history for at least nine decades: Johns Hop…

RISING SUN - The sunlight bore down over northeastern Maryland, and the humidity was close to 90%, but the he…

The Rev. Natalie Conway's tenure as the new deacon of Memorial Episcopal Church in Baltimore's Bolton Hill wa…

In the waning days of the Great Depression, a woman told Baltimore Police she'd found a baby in the back seat…

This memoir, co-written with Whitey Herzog, was ranked in February 2022 by Esquire magazine as one of "The 10…

Four of the rowhouses in the 2000 block of Greenmount Avenue are boarded shut. A disheveled man nurses a bott…

Critics say the Roman Catholic church has long failed to accommodate the interests of Black parishioners, and…

Denise Sharp is a go-to historian for her extended family, and her knowledge of the Sharp and Doerer clans of…

Ousted Empowerment Temple pastor George Barnes II and his wife faced serious problems in their business lives…

A bright moon hovered above Westminster, Md., that evening in June 1885, its "still rays lighting up every no…

With a new year about to start at his children's Sunday school, Mansoor Shams volunteered to handle logistics…

The sculptor came with his latest works, the product of months of labor. The mason arrived with cement drills…

For a hundred years, the statue of a grieving mother gazed down from a pedestal in a park near Johns Hopkins …

When Baltimore’s oldest art museum decided to sell three of its most prominent paintings, including a major w…

Bishop Millicent Hunter began somberly, reading from the Scriptures about Jesus' agony on the cross. She rais…

If anyone should know resurrection, it's Rev. Tom Slawson and his flock at St. Peter's Episcopal Church. Five…

A young man battling rare terminal afflictions finds hope -- and a seemingly miraculous medical recovery -- t…

A man whose only son died in a car crash finds hope and solace in the in the strange world the young man used…

Fifty years on, longtime residents of Cambridge are still sifting through their emotions about what took plac…

He was a mighty presence when the Ravens won Super Bowl XXXV, a warrior who busted a wedge to make the first …

While growing up in an African-American Baptist church, Harris Thomas was taught homosexuality is an "abomina…

An email message that Andrea Kane, the superintendent of schools in Queen Anne's County, sent to parents at t…

KeSean Johnson's involvement with religion has been a long, sometimes troublesome journey. Raised in a Christ…

Three men who were sexually abused by a church youth-ministry leader years ago experienced a measure of justi…