American Quote by Anthea Butler

“While we must continue to align ourselves in denominations that share our theological distinctives, at the local level our bias should be in the…

— Timothy Keller

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in…

— Os Guinness

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.

— Tom Brokaw

Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church was no…

— Eddie Gibbs

“This peculiarity is essential to the perfection of the Presbyterian system, and makes it what, it strikes us, no other system of church-government is,…

— James Henley Thornwell

All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I…

— Anonymous

I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“Yet in my role as a church consultant, I find a lot of confusion about the lost and unchurched population. Many Christians do not…

— Thom S. Rainer

“the United Church of Christ, has gone from more than two million members in 1957 (the year two denominations merged to form the current…

— Emily C. Heath

There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the…

— Charles Hodge

I think 75% of the population of Great Britain are probably still de-churched. It's the younger end, the 25%, the merging generation, who have…

— Nicky Gumbel

These [conservative] people, if they're Americans, look back on the last 35 years of our ecclesial experience and take heart from that. The dramatic…

— George Weigel