Can U.S. Protestants survive today’s challenges?
The overwhelming majority of Americans once were Protestants, but church membership has been dropping for decades. Today, religious diversity reigns, with Protestantism only one among an array of American faiths.
But declining numbers haven’t dimmed church leaders’ efforts to influence public issues, just as early Protestant churches drove social movements from abolition and Prohibition to the civil rights struggle.
- Have mainline Protestant groups lost their influence permanently?
- Would declaring the United States a Christian nation fulfill the intentions of the nation’s founders?
- Must Protestants take a specific political stance?
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