If Ernest Hemingway were to interview American Mainline Protestantism in 2025, the conversation would go something like this: ...

The ELCA’s alteration of the Nicene Creed was an attempt at ‘reconciliation’ with the Eastern Orthodox Church, but it masks the true source of division in the church.

But Protestantism was also exerting tremendous centrifugal force in American culture, spinning out dissenters, agitators and innovators whose experimentation has had lasting creative significance. In ...

The trouble is that Mainline Protestantism is more like a phantom limb than a budding branch. We still feel it tingling even though there's not much left.

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 ...

Every 18th and 19th century High Tory or Burkean Whig who fought against radical Protestantism in the old country warned of this very thing. But keep in mind that authority systems are dynamic.

The question now is whether these breakaway groups signal a seismic shift in American Protestantism, or just a few fissures in the theological terrain. In some ways, the rifts are nothing new.

Notions linking “whiteness” to Protestantism were further entrenched in the second half of the 19th century, when immigrants from Ireland, Germany and Italy came to the U.S. bringing ...

The two causes of loss of influence which American Protestantism shares with Protestantism in general are, first, the general growth of secularism in our age, and secondly, the increasing tendency ...

Explore the fundamental differences between Catholicism and Protestantism, two major branches of Christianity that diverged during the 16th-century Reformation. This video delves into key distinctions ...

Half of those changing faiths within Protestantism (50%) say they felt called by God to join their new faith. About three-in-ten (28%) of those who changed within Protestantism say they made the ...

The trouble is that Mainline Protestantism is more like a phantom limb than a budding branch. We still feel it tingling even though there's not much left.