The percentage of Americans who are members of a house of worship dropped below the 50% mark last year for the first time in eight decades—the amount of time Gallup has measured the metric.
The real estate interest of Dallas megachurch pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes has entered into an exclusive 45-day negotiation to purchase property at the site of the former Fort McPherson army base in Fulton County, Georgia.
Church coffers lagged slightly, but didn’t suffer too much. When churches were asked if 2020 totals were higher, the same or at least close to 2019’s levels, 83 percent said they were, compared with 87 ...
A study of 1,000 U.S. Protestant churchgoers found 91% said they planned on returning to in-person worship when it is safe to do so.
In a long-awaited report released Monday (Feb. 1), a task force commissioned to study the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission calls the convention’s public policy arm a “significant distraction from the Great ...
Even as the number of U.S. coronavirus deaths nears 400,000 and infections top 24 million, a quarter of Chronicle readers surveyed said they either don’t plan to be vaccinated or remain undecided.
A group of former members is now renewing their call for the church to make good on its earlier promises. “We have not seen follow-through on your initial apologies and stated goal of reconciliation,” wrote ...
Court Victories For Churches, Trouble in Ethiopia, MinistryWatch Database Updates
Court Victories For Churches, Trouble in Ethiopia, MinistryWatch Database Updates
A church in Lexington, Ky., has hired GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment) to investigate allegations of sexual abuse by singer/songwriter Chris Rice.
A judge said city limitations are causing a ‘substantial burden’ on Capitol Hill Baptist under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act
A district court has temporarily granted a request from a Washington, D.C., Southern Baptist church to gather for outdoor worship services that violate the city’s rules for public gatherings.
