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Grand Rapids is the home of several colleges, including Calvin College, mecca of Christian Reformed scholarship. There are almost more churches than anyone can count (479 Protestant, 42 Catholic and two synagogues). One stanza of a song glorifying Grand Rapids rhapsodizes:
There are gaps in Johnson's book, some obviously by design. He disdains to rerun the story of Henry VIII's war with the papacy over his divorce, assuming that most English-speaking readers know it already. At other times, though, particularly in his discussion of more recent...
America's Episcopal Church has long managed to be "all things to all men"-and women. Internally, it has accommodated its various factions with a reasonable degree of harmony. Externally, it has functioned as an ecumenical bridge between Protestantism and Catholicism because it contains elements of each. Those days may be over. At the church's 13-day General Convention, which ended in Minneapolis last week, the Protestant side took firm control of the church, and both internal and external relationships will never be the same...
But so much remains the same. Given its predominantly Anglo-Saxon traditions and largely Protestant population-black and white-Christian revelation is a way of life in Dixie. "Others tend to scoff at the Bible Belt," says former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, now a professor of international law at...
That is a historical irony. Before the rise of Protestant liberalism in the 19th century, when scholars began to question such keystone doctrines as the deity of Jesus and his resurrection, U.S. Protestantism was generally evangelical. Then came the Civil War and in its wake, the growth of Northern cities and the drift of Northern Protestantism into a more liberal camp...