Nearly 80 percent of evangelical Protestant pastors reject the scientific consensus that the climate is changing and human actions are a major cause, according to a new report. Only about one-quarter ...

The Religion News Service article makes depressing but instructive reading, from its use of the queer pastors’ picture, to ...

William 'Beau' Weston, a Sociology professor and Presbyterian elder known for researching trends in Christian higher education. Fifty years ago, the seminaries of the mainline Protestant churches were ...

By David Campbell and Geoffrey Layman The Conversation After climbing for decades, the percentage of Americans with no religion has leveled off. For the past few years, the share of adults who ...

By contrast, only 27% of Black Protestant clergy and 21% of liberal or mainline Protestant clergy reject it. The study of 1,600 U.S. congregational leaders across the religious spectrum was conducted ...

Though largely used as fodder for internet “gotchas,” the scuffle pointed to a wider trend — one that could remake the ...

Nearly 80% of evangelical Protestant clergy reject this idea, which is strongly held by the scientific community. This group’s rate of rejection is quadruple what is found in Mainline Protestant ...

Arguments on whether or not what would be the nation’s first religious charter school can open in Oklahoma will be heard ...

By contrast, only 27% of Black Protestant clergy and 21% of liberal or mainline Protestant clergy reject it. The study of 1,600 U.S. congregational leaders across the religious spectrum was ...

In the big picture, Pew reports the current breakdown of American religious identity as follows: Unaffiliated (29%), evangelical Protestant (23%), Catholic (19%), mainline Protestant (11%), Black ...