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 ...

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 ...

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.

In a 2024 study by the highly regarded, Washington DC based Pew Research Centre, it was found that in the US both ...

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 ...

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 ...

A conversation with historian David Hollinger about the rise of evangelicalism, the decline of mainline Protestantism, and if the country has truly become more secular.

This video delves into key distinctions in authority, salvation, sacraments, and worship practices that continue to shape their unique identities today.

The surveys about mainline Protestantism just keep coming and coming. And — this might not be news to you — the results of those surveys keep getting worse ...