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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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.

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.

But what we focus on now is trying to influence people with our deeds, not with our lips.” Protestantism’s encroachment on Catholicism isn’t only an issue in China.

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.

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.