Greetings Colleagues— You have heard a lot from us recently about Thriving! Thriving Ministers and Thriving Congregations. I hope you received the Center for Congregational Health’s invitation to participate in our Thriving Congregations Survey. Just in case you...
By Steve Austin “Only those who recognize the extent of their wounds and their wounding can be made well.” – Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday I’m a 30-something Millennial, and a former pastor. Most folks would assume that combination would make me pretty...
By Jeff Brumley From Baptist News Global Younger Americans are abandoning organized religion in ever greater numbers and it’s no shock that churches can’t control the underlying social forces driving that decline. But they aren’t totally powerless, either, says...
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald From Faith and Leadership Editor’s note: Research for this story was funded by The BTS Center, a Maine-based think tank focused on 21st-century faith communities. It included visits to nearly two dozen vital mainline congregations that have...
From Baptist News Global By Jeff Brumley Europeans, it seems, are wondering if American Christianity has pretty much gone off the rails. A recent editorial in Great Britain’s The Guardian newspaper raised the question after describing the role faith has had in the...
