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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Protestantism is in grave danger, according to one of its outstanding leaders, Dr. John A. Mackay (rhymes with decry). Dr. Mackay is president of Princeton Theological Seminary, president of the ...