Ryan Burge's new book, "The Vanishing Church," complicates common notions about declining church membership and the effect of ...

Research team from Kyoto University hopes pastors and lay people will help refine its accuracy and appropriate role ...

Church researchers were wondering: What season of the year are church leaders thinking about finances? For most, they found, the answer seemed to be the fall. Three in 4 Protestant churches, a new ...

Mainline Protestant clergy members and the worshippers they serve may share a faith, but they often don’t hold the same political views, according to a new survey on mainline Protestantism from Public ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The wide empty spaces in pews between parishioners at a Sunday service at Zion Baptist Church in South Carolina’s capital highlight a post-pandemic reality common among many Black ...

American Catholicism has plenty of progressive touchstones, from Dorothy Day’s Catholic Workers movement to Cesar Chavez’s ...

The fight to allow same-sex marriage and gay clergy has defined much of the last half-century for major mainline Protestant denominations in the U.S., mirroring in many ways the broader fight for ...

More Protestant churches are being closed in America than are being planted, and older congregations appear to be bearing the brunt of the contraction, according to data from a new Lifeway Research ...

The National Council of Churches Releases Membership Statistics. Feb. 16, 2011— -- America is the most developed nation when it comes to religion. It has a dynamic, competitive religious ...

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