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 ...

Review of Religious Research, Vol. 54, No. 4 (December 2012), pp. 445-468 (24 pages) Using data on 1,214 families from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this study explored why and under ...

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 ...

Vol. 13, Special Volume− Christianity as an Issue in the History of U.S.-China Relations (2004-2006), pp. 121-148 (28 pages) The Journal of American-East Asian Relations is a peer-reviewed quarterly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

• Ultimately, "a world government of delegated powers." • Complete abandonment of U.S. isolationism. • Strong immediate limitations on national sovereignty. • International control of all armies & ...

IT IS the Day of the Dead in Malinalco, a small Mexican town. In its grand 16th century church a sprinkling of worshippers gathers to hear Mass. The cemetery across the main road is thronged with ...

The Reformed pastor and theologian Peter Leithart says yes it is, and says it’s time for Protestants to embrace what he calls “Reformational Catholicism.” The basic idea is that Protestantism, as a ...

On certain thin-aired uplands where theologians graze, it is growing increasingly difficult to tell a Protestant from a Roman Catholic. To a degree that would have been unthinkable 50 years ago, they ...

In 10 years, most mainline denominations will likely still legally exist but most of them will be little more than shells.