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 then ...

Just say the word - Calvinism - and you will draw frowns. When John L. Thompson's daughter brought home her civics textbook a few years ago, he noticed there was a short section on John Calvin, the ...

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 Monitor ...

Reformed influences on America’s founding principles. John Witte’s new book, The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism, will therefore come as an eye-opener ...

“Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain” (Psalm 127:1). In the construction industry, there is a running joke among contractors that when the architects and engineers ...

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.

(RNS) Can’t we all just get along? That was the question that Southern Baptists, torn between Calvinists and non-Calvinists, seemed to be asking as they opened their two-day annual meeting in Houston.

An interview with author James K.A. Smith: Calvinism, as you say in the intro to the book, seems to be hip again. Time Magazine recently named Calvinism as one of “10 ideas changing the world right ...

Calvin professor of philosophy and Worship Institute research fellow James K.A. Smith has written a new book called Letters to a Young Calvinist: An Invitation to the Reformed Tradition. At just 160 ...

It wasn’t until the 19th century that Calvinist doctrines waned. By most logic, the stern system of Calvinism shouldn’t be popular today. Much of modern Christianity preaches a comforting Home Depot ...