From Faith and Leadership By G. Jeffrey MacDonald 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 BNG By Jeff Brumley New research suggests there may yet be a smidge of good news for churches and other religious groups long assailed by the forces of culture and modernity. Could it be? It just might, according to a Public Religion Research Institute study. The...
From Baptist News Global By Jeff Brumley It seems religion in America just can’t catch a break. Religious affiliation and participation continue to dive, driven in part by young generations uninterested in belonging to anything, least of all churches. And now newly...
From Acts of Faith newsletter: Conversations about faith and values By Sarah Pulliam Bailey Judging from the popularity of Hollywood’s numerous apocalyptic-themed blockbusters, Americans appear fixated on stories that predict ways the world could end. Humans have been...
From Barna Group, 2017 We live in an increasingly secular American culture. In this new age, religion is in retreat from the public square, and traditional institutions like the church are no longer functioning with the cultural authority they once held in generations...
