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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The doors of Castle Church in Wittenberg, where Martin Luther posted his 95 theses that ...

More than half of Latinos identify themselves as Catholic, while most of the remainder are closely divided between Protestants and those who say they have no religious affiliation. Religious ...

When the Episcopal Church recently announced cuts to its national staff, it was the latest in a long-running cycle among historic U.S. Protestant denominations — declines in members leading to ...

When Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens retires this summer, the court will be without a Protestant for the first time in its 220-year history, said James Oliphant in the Los Angeles Times.

Many Houstonians will celebrate this three-day Labor Day weekend by racing to Galveston beaches, hitting the malls for sales or making a fast getaway by plane. But for every stop for beer or gas, ...

Popes can err if they are not making proclamations in the limited circumstances in which we believe papal infallibility applies to them, per the 1870 dogma. The pope is not some kind of inspired ...