This Pew Research Center analysis looks at reasons why people identify as Protestant or switch into or out of Protestantism. It is part of a broader report that focuses on patterns in religious ...

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 ...

Prompted by the World Evangelical Fellowship, Protestants all over the world last week offered prayers for their brothers in Spain. And Spain’s 30,000-odd Protestant worshipers gathered in private ...

A new “ecclesiological think tank” offers a valuable but incomplete summary. What is the church? Though the question has dogged Christians since the Book of Acts, there has been something of a renewal ...

When given the option, most younger believers go for a broader term. Over the past several decades, American evangelicalism has moved away from the religious labels, symbols, and buildings that used ...

In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, first published in 1904 and today considered one of the foundational texts of modern sociology, Max Weber argued that European industrial ...

Do you have a Protestant translation of the Bible? I’m not talking about the Gideon King James Version (KJV) you snagged in that Orlando motel five years ago. I’m talking about a good, solid, modern ...

The religious composition of the Supreme Court has undergone a gradual shift since its early days. With U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens talking openly about retirement, attention has ...

ALTHOUGH HE WASN'T MARRIED himself, Jesus had some rather clear teachings on the subject. Adultery was sin, he declared, and that included even lustful looks at another woman. He was tough on divorce, ...

"Hard work never killed anyone," goes the joke, "but why take the chance?" For those possessed of the much-vaunted Protestant work ethic, however, it isn't a joke; without work they are unhappier than ...

About half of the 40 million Irish Americans are Protestant according to the General Social Survey (GSS), a national survey that collects data on demographics and attitudes, while only one third are ...