John Turner, writing on the First Things blog, says liberal Protestantism might have won the intra-religious culture war after all. Excerpt: Liberal Protestants may have ultimately lost the battle for ...

There will be much controversy about this report, but there are certain conclusions that are unmistakable. Mainline Protestant denominations continue their plunge downward through mediocrity to total ...

The Reformed pastor and theologian Peter Leithart says yes it is, and says it’s time for Protestants to embrace what he calls “Reformational Catholicism.” The basic idea is that Protestantism, as a ...

Other traditions accuse the Reformers of ignoring church tradition and frustrating church unity. That gets things backward. I was raised in Indonesia as part of a Roman Catholic family. When I first ...

Five hundred years ago, an unknown monk named Martin Luther marched up to the church in Wittenberg, a small town in what is now Germany, and nailed a list of criticisms of the Catholic church to its ...

A PURELY statistical study of the life and growth of Protestantism in the United States during the last hundred years does not support a very widely held conviction that Protestantism is losing its ...

Those familiar with Amy Laura Hall’s work will recognize in Conceiving Parenthood her characteristic thoroughness, fairness, careful research and abiding concern for the history and contemporary ...

American Christianity has been less than it should have been just to the extent that the church has failed to make clear that America's god is not the God we worship as Christians. Stanley Hauerwas is ...

The supposed superiority of white Protestantism, supported by interpretations of biblical texts, was for centuries used to justify the institution of slavery. Biblical texts were also used to justify ...

Have statistics got anything to do with religion? Not much, concludes Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, writing in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly. U.S. Protestantism may not be losing ...

The hard-hitting owner-editor of the Christian Century had a lot on his mind. Charles Clayton Morrison decided to write a series of articles on the challenging theme, “Can Protestantism Win America?”* ...