Davidson. "It's partly a matter of networking," says Davidson, a sociologist of religion. "Even today, people in the three mainline Protestant religions -- Episcopalian, Presbyterian and United Church ...

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism is pretty much deinstitutionalized mainline Protestantism, is it not? If the purpose of the church is to convert the world, and the world is converted to your idea of ...

The Presbyterian Church (USA) is nearing the latest turning point in its half-century struggle over same-sex clergy and marriage that could give liberals powerful new leverage against traditionalists ...

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 ...

There she first emphasized the complicated leadership role women have played in American Protestantism. By the first half of the 20th century, her research showed, “fundamentalists had adopted the ...