How Progressivism Killed American Protestantism

How progressivism killed American Protestantism

Mainline Protestantism, once a primary cultural and political pillar of American life, is in freefall. Traditional Protestant denominations – Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans and others – now account for less than 11 percent of the population, down 40 percent since 2007, according to the Pew Religious Landscape Study. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the main Lutheran body in the United States, had more than …

Reviving the Great American Pastor

Returning to the Prophetic Voice of the Pulpit The moral conscience of a nation is shaped by the exhortation of the great men it produces. It has long been the responsibility of these men to providentially guide the generations towards the glorification of God, in both personal and civic life. To shepherd the American people was to protect them from the entropic collapse of public morality while aligning them towards a transcendent good. What ma…