American Protestantism and what it has done David Hollinger explores how Protestantism has shaped—and warped—a nation’s intellectual life.

Thus even within Protestantism the locus of authority has shifted from the small-scale, informally hierarchical, and communally consensus-seeking to a vast domain shaped by mass communications ...

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.

Former President George W. Bush again criticized what he sees as a Republican Party that is not inclusive enough, arguing that if it stands for “White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism, then it’s not ...

Statistics showing the growth of Protestant Church membership are impressive. But has there been a corresponding increase in the influence of Protestantism on the life of the nation? Or has the ...

Only 22% of those changing within Protestantism say they joined their current religion after age 35. When it comes to church attendance and strength of faith from childhood to adulthood, those who ...

White mainline Protestantism is in decline — at least, that’s been the prevailing narrative for the past few decades. White evangelical Christian denominations have ascended to political power ...

Or to recover its riches? Two Protestant luminaries look at the legacy of the Reformation, 500 years later.

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 ...

Martin Luther laid the groundwork for capitalism by ushering in the ‘age of the individual’—but what do his principles suggest about growth and the future of innovation?

Like the 2007 Religious Landscape Study, the new survey shows a remarkable degree of churn in the U.S. religious landscape. If Protestantism is treated as ...