The other day, I read Carl Trueman's piece in First Things titled "David French And The Future Of Orthodox Protestantism". Nowhere in the short essay is "orthodox Protestantism" defined. In the ...

THAT ardent Protestant before Protestantism, Saint Francis of Assisi, standing humbly before the great Pope Innocent, defended his wandering brothers, preaching without license, bringing souls to God ...

Headlines earlier this summer pointed to gains among mainline Protestants in numbers not seen for decades. Findings released by the Public Religion Research Institute in July indicate that people who ...

INSTITUTIONS die hard. Especially religious institutions. They take a long time about it. Generations and centuries. The nostalgia of religious habits. The endowments and vested interests. Paganism ...

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 ...

One of U.S. Protestantism’s doughtiest champions—and one of its sharpest critics —is the owner-editor of the nondenominational Christian Century. For 38 years Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison’s Protestant ...

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 ...

Three sociologists look at the impact of this growing body of believers on the American church. According to sociologists Mark Mulder, Aida Ramos, and Gerardo Marti, Latino Protestants are a force to ...