Weeks before Christians ac­claimed their hosannas while hunkered down in their Zoom rooms, I paid a pastoral call to a 97-year-old shut-in from my congregation. Vince was worried that “when the virus ...
Next to papal infallibility, the biggest barrier to Catholic-Protestant unity is the humble Jewish girl who gave birth to Jesus of Nazareth. By popular piety and papal decree, Roman Catholics have ...
As a branch of Christianity whose primary founding tenants include a call for lay participation in government and the public affairs of the Church, Protestantism seems especially suited to this active ...
In the Religious Landscape Study (RLS), we group Protestant respondents into one of three “traditions” – the evangelical tradition, mainline tradition or the historically Black Protestant tradition – ...
Dan Barker, in his guest column (Wednesday Tribune), makes a case for protesting against religious Christmas displays in public places. “What is wrong with protest, in this great country that ...
It’s not unusual for me to be asked, by Catholics, “Why do you spend so much time trying to evangelize Protestants?” I have been told, a number of times, that since Protestants already believe in ...
A great metaphysical drama played out on the world’s stage. So, here's a proposition: The novel was an art form—the art form—of the modern Protestant West, and as the main strength of established ...
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 ...
Welcome to the post-Protestant Reformation. By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist “Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith,” Dwight Eisenhower said in ...
Review of Religious Research, Vol. 30, No. 4, In Memoriam: Barbara June Watts Hargrove (Jun., 1989), pp. 360-374 (15 pages) The image of a clash of symbols not only represents a conflict between ...