Perspectives By Sarai Rice First, apparently, by leaving it. According to America’s Changing Religious Landscape, the latest report from the Pew Forum, the percentage of adults who describe themselves as Christians dropped from 78.4% in 2007 to 70.6% in 2014. In the...
The Kansas City Star By Jonathan Merritt Fifty-nine percent of millennials who grew up in a Christian church drop out of it permanently or for an extended period, according to research by Barna Group. Among the most common reasons for leaving are millennials’ beliefs...
Faith and Leadership August 2015 By David Odom How do you respond when you hear a new idea, something that has real promise but is not quite right? How do you both encourage the creative juices of the presenter and introduce concerns? Business strategist Roger...
By Jeff Brumley The American church, it seems, just can’t catch a break. The “nones” won’t come in, the “dones” are … well, done, and the rest of the membership is slowly but surely dying off. Attendance and tithing are taking big hits. And now congregational...
By John Stackhouse Count up all of those hours: Is that what we really think our preachers are worth? The way some Christian churches and other organizations pay their speakers, it makes me embarrassed to be a member of the same faith. A friend of mine is a gifted...
