The following is adapted from remarks delivered at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, on May 1, 2023. The future of Christianity? It’s an enormous topic. There are more than one billion ...

A great metaphysical drama played out on the world’s stage. So, here's a proposition: The novel was an art form—the art form—of the modern Protestant West, and as the main strength of established ...

If you’re a white Protestant—whether you’re a conservative evangelical or a moderate mainline Christian—you probably have the feeling your religion’s influence is in a freefall. I’m sorry to bear ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. upon joining the Presbyterian ministry, in the mid-1970s, I served in a town outside Richmond, Virginia. New ...

There is a range of estimates for the number of Christians in China, partly because different researchers use varying sources and methods, and partly because some analyses make adjustments to account ...

Exploring the stories found in apocryphal texts — writings outside the biblical canon that have influenced Christian and Jewish traditions for centuries. From the Acts of Peter to the Gospel of Mary, ...