The Protestant community provides opportunity for spiritual enrichment and personal growth through monthly worship, small group Bible studies, prayer, service projects and pastoral counseling.

Praise bands and informality are rising, along with Hispanic leaders and unaffiliated churches, finds latest National Congregations Study. Out: Organs, bulletins, and choirs. In: Spoken amens, raising ...

Black churches are among the oldest and most influential institutions dedicated to supporting Black Americans. When they were first founded, denominations like the African Methodist Episcopal Church ...

The differences between Protestants and Roman Catholics are normally defined in terms of doctrine—papal in fallibility, Marianism, the nature of the church. But there is a difference that lies deeper ...

If newcomers walk into a Protestant church on Sunday and hear an organ playing, and see hymnals, the odds are good that between 50 and 250 people will be in the pews. If a church's attendance is ...

Image above is from an Anglican Christmas service at Westminster Abbey. "O come let us adore Him," sings the congregation. But some Protestant churches are choosing not to open their doors for the ...

The name of the Theotokos expresses the whole mystery of God’s saving dispensation. —St. John of Damascus (655-750) In the doctrine and worship of Mary there is disclosed the one heresy of the Roman ...

It is the vocation of Chicago’s Paul Hutchinson to follow and analyze the course of U.S. Protestantism. Longtime journalist, ordained minister and author (The New Leviathan), he is editor of the ...

Nashville is frequently called “The Athens of the South” and “Music City,” but “The Protestant Vatican” and “The City of Churches” are equally appropriate, if less common, nicknames. With its 700 or ...