I. The background in England -- II. The church in Virginia -- III. Beyond Virginia in the South -- IV. The church in Massachusetts -- V. Beyond Massachusetts in New England -- VI. The church in New ...

ONE of Dante’s finest passages celebrates the nuptials of St. Francis of Assisi and the Lady Poverty, ‘the widow of Christ.’ In the thought of the spiritual troubadours of the Middle Ages she had been ...

“So the idea is that we’re a community church,” Leupold continued, “and we’re distinguishing ourselves from the Catholic Church—obviously by saying ‘Protestant.’ And so because of that, we have lots ...

Some Protestant Sunday schools, as recently as five years ago, were still teaching that the Catholics were “papists” and “enemies of the Gospel,” and that the Jews had suffered through history under a ...

More Protestant churches are being closed in America than are being planted, and older congregations appear to be bearing the brunt of the contraction, according to data from a new Lifeway Research ...