Building on the the commonwealth’s commitment to commemorating America’s 250th anniversary, the Kentucky Arts Council (KAC) ...

The Murray Art Guild has been awarded a $10,000 grant through the Kentucky Arts Council that will help fund an exhibition documenting the history of the neighborhood surrounding ...

Many Christian writers identified the gods and lesser spirits of the Greek and Roman world with demons. This ushered in the Christian practice of demonizing those they perceived as their opponents.

My children’s great-grandfather on their father’s side was a Cathar. Not literally, of course, but certainly in spirit — and to the point at which he believed he was a reincarnated member of the ...

CITIES OF THE FLESH by Zoe Oldenbourg. 503 pages. Pantheon Press. $5.95. The dreadful pageant that seems to haunt Novelist-Historian Zoe Oldenbourg began on a hot, still day in 1209, when a French ...

Where did you grow up, and what was that like? I grew up on a farm in southeast Missouri, right at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. We were way out in the country, so much of my time ...

Who were the Cathars, and what was daily life like for them? In this video, we explore the beliefs and lifestyle of this medieval Christian sect that challenged the power of the Catholic Church. The ...

“These heretics are worse than the Saracens!” exclaimed Pope Innocent III, and on March 10, 1208, he proclaimed a crusade against a sect in southern France that became one of the bloodiest blots in ...