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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Does Christianity have a future in the United States? David Hollinger poses this question in his important new book. Few people are more qualified to answer it than Hollinger, who over the course of ...

Since we’re at a delicate moment in our democracy—featuring a Presidential candidate who lost the Electoral College by just 42,918 votes and responded by urging his followers to attack the Capitol—we ...

Sometimes prayers seem like they're being answered. The 2020 "census of American religion" released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) last week included a surprising finding. Over the ...

Twice this month I’ve had cause to wonder what’s happening to my native state. The Todd Akin flap, in which the suburban St. Louis congressman revealed a less than adequate grasp of human reproduction ...

At least 1 million evangelical Christians took part in Saturday's annual March for Jesus in Sao Paulo, demonstrating the growing trend of Protestantism in Brazil. With 123.2 million of 191 million ...