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 ...

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 ...

(RNS) The question now is whether these breakaway Anglican, Lutheran and Presbyterian groups signal a seismic shift in American Protestantism, or just a few fissures in the theological terrain. By ...

America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. By Mark A. Noll. Oxford University Press, 602 pp., $35.00. The least-understood period in American religious history has been the era of the ...

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 ...

Eight-in-ten adults who were raised Protestant are still Protestant, and about two-thirds of this group (or 52% of all those raised Protestant) are still members of the same family of denominations (e ...

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?”* ...

The Atlantic has a story up about the decline in religious conservatism among younger Americans. I see no reason to dispute the data, however distressing I might find it, and in any case it’s no ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New Jersey minister welcoming members of the KKK into his church in 1923. Bettmann via Getty ...