WASHINGTON — Snow falls resolutely on a Saturday morning in Washington, but the festively lit basement of a church near the US Capitol is packed.

What are the status and prospects of Calvinism in the United States 400 years after the definitive edition of the Institutes of the Christian Religion? They are not good. In fact, they are very bad.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

“New Calvinism” describes a return to the principles expressed by Martin Luther and John Calvin, among them that God takes the initiative in the salvation of people. The 16th-century reformers ...

America is experiencing a Calvinist revival. Or so said Mark Oppenheimer of The New York Times recently. Amidst the boom of this theological framework, Austin Fischer explains why he joined and ...

The Calvinist Pilgrims came in search of a place to live out their faith — an intangible mind-set that called them to work and to pray. They set moral standards for themselves and organized ...

A memory came back from high school world history about the Calvinist doctrine of the elect and the unregenerate, that is, who was destined to be saved and who wasn’t. A cursory Internet search ...

Is the rise of Calvinism among the young helping or hurting evangelicalism and the church’s mission? C.) An “us against them” mentality. Because of the previous two characteristics ...

The most striking similarity between the contemporary Middle East and the Reformation is that the most austere versions of religious belief – Christian Calvinism, and Islamic Wahhabism – have ...

This Calvinist form of institutional organisation has also over time had an influence on non-religious areas of the Swiss mentality. All state institutions remain separate from religious ones ...