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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before moving past this month's 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation, let's think about what a recent Pew Forum survey says about Catholics and Protestants in the U.S. today.

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 ...

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 ...

Americans’ propensity to work hard has often been attributed to the so-called Protestant work ethic. That term comes from the German sociologist Max Weber, who argued in the early 1900s that ...

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