For decades, conservative responses to ecclesiastical progressivism have largely resembled conservative responses elsewhere: We’ve left. A group of young conservatives within mainline American ...

While a third of Presbyterian Church (USA) members are over 70 years of age, only 4 percent are children under 18. Time is not on the side of mainline churches. Today’s hollowed-out mainline churches ...

Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.

Mainline Protestant denominations have been declining for 60 years, and some of these denominations will not exist meaningfully much longer. But will all their congregations recede or die with them?