The Vanishing Protestant by Charles E Lawson

With the events in 2014 surrounding Pope Francis and Tony Palmer’s declaration that “the protest is over” at the Kenneth Copeland Ministers’ Conference on January 21, 2014, do we stop and ask ourselves, “What protest?” Or do we even know what a Protestant is? If so, then when did this "protest” occur? In The Vanishing Protestant, author Charles Lawson examines the political climate fifteen years into the twenty-first century in regard to religious freedom. One member of the U.S. Congress seems to think of our First Amendment rights as a “special privilege.” If that were the case, “there would be no protection from a government with unlimited power to distribute, modify, and rescind privileges.” The Bible tells us that this day will come. Long before there was a First Amendment or even a United States of America, a Catholic monk by the name of Martin Luther recognized that his church didn’t follow the teachings found in Scripture. He longed and labored for church reform. Instead, he fou