We have the pleasure of inviting Dr. Paul Gutacker to the Anxious Bench today. Gutacker is the Executive Director of the Brazos Fellows. He earned his Ph.D. from Baylor University, and this post is ...

A PURELY statistical study of the life and growth of Protestantism in the United States during the last hundred years does not support a very widely held conviction that Protestantism is losing its ...

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 ...

This week in history takes a look at Christianity in America and the protestant revivals that sparked a Great Awakening. Every Sunday millions of American Christians file into the pews of their local ...

In Europe, the origins of printing occurred in the middle of the fifteenth century. The development of the printing industry at this time was made possible by four technological innovations: Moveable ...

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 ...

Anne of Cleves, played by Dana Hurfurth in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light on MASTERPIECE With politics in disarray and another of Henry VIII’s wives tragically shuffling off her mortal coil in ...

What are popular online Protestant apologists today telling their coreligionists who are encountering Catholic critiques of their religious tradition? “Confessional Lutheran, published apologetics ...

What are America’s biggest local Protestant churches? THE RELIGION GUY’S ANSWER: Through American history, Catholic parishes tended to have large memberships while local Protestant congregations were ...