Francis Makemie is sometimes called the father of American Presbyterianism, and he earned that status thanks to two episodes ...

Over the weekend I wrote about the debate over religious revival in America, touching on the evidence for and against ...

Precious little courtesy or understanding. Are these comments just the overheated responses of incautious leaders following an unprecedented act of terrorism? Partly. But such conservative Protestant ...

Catholics continue to be the largest religious group in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru – despite declining as a share of these countries’ adult populations over the past decade.

Any argument about the political and ecclesial divisions of U.S. Catholics has a special burden: to make its account plausible, if not persuasive, across the divides it seeks to describe. This is no ...

Christianity and Hollywood. It seems whenever those two terms intersect, there is a battle occurring. More recent disputes over movies such as The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), The Passion of the ...

Throughout the 19th century, Islam appeared regularly in the curricula of American Protestant seminaries. Islam was not only the focus of Christian missions but was studied as part of the history of ...

Religious followers that represent less than three percent of Americans are the most educated in the country, according to a national study. Hindus and Jewish Americans are the most likely to have a ...

Recent debates about leaving Jesus out, or else getting him out, of the Christmas season look somewhat curious from the vantage-point of Rome. In what remains a culturally Catholic country, and at a ...