In 2007, when the Pew Research Center conducted its first Religious Landscape Study, more than half of adults (51.3%) identified as Protestants. Today, by comparison, 46.5% of adults describe ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to explore the breadth and diversity of Black Americans’ religious experiences. This survey represents the Center’s most comprehensive, in-depth study of the ...

While most U.S. Protestant churches have policies in place to address significant misbehavior by members, formalized church ...

Christianity has been the largest religion in the U.S. since day one. According to the latest studies conducted by Pew Research Center, roughly 70 percent of today's U.S. population identifies as ...

To say there are tens of thousands of Protestant denominations—while perhaps technically accurate according to some sociological research standards—really does seem like an exaggeration.

A Lifeway Research study asked Protestant pastors their thoughts on the importance of denominations and how they believe denominations will fare in the next 10 years.

There are more than 45,000 Christian denominations globally and more than 200 in the U.S., according to the Center for the Study of Global Christianity. Most of the denominations came to be after ...

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America meets June 8-12. Thousands of “messengers” from the churches of the Southern Baptist Convention will gather in Columbus, Ohio, on ...

How denominations split: Lessons for ... — Talk of schism in the United Methodist Church has prompted me to revisit the research I did in the 1980s as the Southern Baptist Convention was being ...

Most of the denominations came to be after the Protestant Reformation in 1517. The Reformation began when German priest Martin Luther wrote his 95 Theses that emphasized personal faith.

The word denomination comes from the Latin denominare meaning “to name.” Sources: Pew Research Center, Global Population Review, Christian History Institute, ...