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White mainline Protestant churchgoers, meanwhile, tend to identify more as Republican (36%) or independent (35%), compared with 1 in 4 who identify as Democrats (24%).
Mainline Protestants have declined at a faster rate than any other major Christian group, including Catholics and evangelical Protestants, and as a result also are shrinking as a share of all ...
If mainline Protestantism has a future, it will need to engage more deeply with the past — not the past of an idealized 1950s, but one that is 2,000 years old.
Mainline Protestants Are Still Declining, But That’s Not Good News for Evangelicals. Ryan P. Burge. Both traditions are losing out to the unaffiliated. Christianity Today July 13, 2021.
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. Sign up for Today's Best Articles in your ...
Mainline Protestantism comes from the Protestants who first came to the United States, plus those early 19th century American groups like Methodists and Disciples of Christ, Congregations ...
Mainline Protestantism’s Pyrrhic Victory? John Turner, writing on the First Things blog, says liberal Protestantism might have won the intra-religious culture war after all.
While most U S Protestant churches have policies in place to address significant misbehavior by members, formalized church ...
(RNS) — Mainline Protestant churches are often linked in the media to support for the progressive agenda — same-sex marriage, for instance, and abortion access — and their clergy are ...
Ideologically, mainline Protestant leaders no longer insisted that their religious traditions were the only acceptable basis for American society. And a gap widened between the attitudes of liberal ...