Here’s why the new denomination may or may not fit the label.

Some conservative churches that voted to disaffiliate say the denomination has responded by forcing out their pastors and charging them millions to keep their property.

Resurrection South Austin is the latest to go, citing issues around race, women, sexual minorities, and abuse response.

The priest and author speaks to the power of the Crucifixion.

And among the worst-rated by everybody else.

The divisions between these “parties” are important. So are the divisions within them.

A sociologist observes the changing tides of American antireligion.

If current rates continue, most religious communities in America will shrink by more than half within three generations. But nondenominational Christianity might buck the trend.

It’s not mainline traditions anymore.

A look at five updates to the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.

In “Crossroads,” Jonathan Franzen portrays the life of faith with uncanny precision and sympathy.

With a denominational split delayed, some are willing to pay big to exit now.

Both traditions are losing out to the unaffiliated.

How “redemptive entrepreneurship” can multiply the impact of cash-strapped ministries.

A growing share of mainline Protestants and Catholics have taken on the once-distinctive label over the past three decades.

Two new books push back on Chicken-Little narratives of evangelical decline.

The 2018 General Social Survey reports American evangelicals holding steady amid growth of the unaffiliated—and a surprising uptick for mainline Protestants.

Reading his book is like enjoying a cup of tea with a wise elder statesman.

Born-again believers have kept the faith over four decades, while most religious switching has been between mainline Protestants and the “nones.”