Religion

Abba House
Abba House was established by the Catholic Diocese of Little Rock in 1981 to offer a home to pregnant women an...
Act 975 of 2015
aka: Religious Freedom Restoration Act
The Arkansas Religious Freedom Restoration Act (SB975 of the 2015 r...
Grace Evelyn Reese Adkins (1884–1973)
Grace Evelyn Reese Adkins devoted most of her considerable energy and talents as a teacher, writer, composer, ...
Cyrus Adler (1863–1940)
Cyrus Adler was a scholar, editor, and Jewish leader with a lifetime commitment to the study of Jewish history...
African Methodist Episcopal Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after white Methodist ...
Tony Alamo (1934–2017)
aka: Tony Alamo Christian Ministries
Tony Alamo was a well-known evangelist who, after a radical convers...
Albert Krantz v. City of Fort Smith
aka: Krantz v. City of Fort Smith
Albert Krantz v. City of Fort Smith was a 1998 decision by the Eigh...
All Souls Church
All Souls Church at 4601 Walkers Corner Road in Scott (Pulaski and Lonoke counties) is a Gothic Revival–styl...
American Missionary Association
The American Missionary Association (AMA) was a nondenominational abolitionist society dedicated to providing ...
Amish
The Amish have attempted five times during the twentieth century to develop communities in Arkansas. All five ...
Anglicans
Arkansas Anglicans are individuals and parishes that, while having some historical connection with the Episcop...
Anti-Catholicism
Organized prejudice against Roman Catholics was a recurring theme in American history from colonial days throu...
Anti-Semitism
Relations between Jews and the rest of the population were generally amicable throughout the South in the nine...
Appeal of the Arkansas Exiles to Christians throughout the World
The “Appeal of the Arkansas Exiles to Christians throughout the World” was a plea for assistance written b...
Arkadelphia Baptist Academy
The Arkadelphia Baptist Academy in Arkadelphia (Clark County) was one of many schools founded across the South...
Arkadelphia Presbyterian Academy
Arkadelphia Presbyterian Academy, located in Arkadelphia (Clark County), was a co-educational elementary and s...
Arkansas Baptist College
Arkansas Baptist College (ABC) in Little Rock (Pulaski County) is a four-year historically Black liberal arts ...
Arkansas Baptist State Convention
The Arkansas Baptist State Convention (ABSC) was organized at Brownsville, now Tulip (Dallas County), on Septe...
Arkansas Catholic
The Arkansas Catholic is the official newspaper of the Diocese of Little Rock. It began publishing in 1911 as ...
Arkansas Christadelphian Bible School
The Arkansas Christadelphian Bible School was founded in Martinville (Faulkner County) in 1923 as a two-week s...
Arkansas Holiness College
Arkansas Holiness College (AHC), founded in 1904, was the focus for a body of Wesleyan holiness believers who ...
Arkansas Methodist Medical Center
Arkansas Methodist Medical Center (AMMC) in Paragould (Greene County) provides healthcare for residents of nor...
Arkansas Right to Life
Arkansas Right to Life is a nonprofit organization whose stated purpose is to “educate through the presentat...
Assemblies of God
The Assemblies of God is an evangelical, Pentecostal organization that was founded in Arkansas in 1914. It has...
Associate Reformed Presbyterians
The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARP) was organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1782. It was ...
Bahá'ís
The Bahá’í faith originated in Persia (present-day Iran) in the mid-1800s as a movement within a minority ...
George Washington Baines (1809–1882)
George W. Baines was a prominent nineteenth-century Southern Baptist minister, teacher, Arkansas politician, a...
James David Bales (1915–1995)
aka: J. D. Bales
From 1944 to 1980, James David Bales was a professor of Bible and t...
Pietro Bandini (1852–1917)
Father Pietro Bandini, a Roman Catholic priest, is most widely remembered in Arkansas for the 1898 founding of...
Baptist Health
Baptist Health, Arkansas’s largest healthcare system, has hospital campuses in communities around Arkansas, ...
Baptists
Baptists make up the largest Protestant Christian group in Arkansas, characterized by the practice of baptism,...
Becoming Free Indeed
Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear is a 2023 memoir by Jinger Duggar Vuolo, one o...