Across the country, religious congregations have reopened, or reopened with some health restrictions still in place, after two long pandemic years, according to a new Pew Research survey.
While Jenny picks up the children — sometimes as many as 25 — her husband, Mike, the church’s minister, cooks breakfast at the building. The menu features favorites such as bacon, biscuits, cinnamon rolls, sausage ...
Baseball is not church, but some of the lessons may be the same.
‘If You Build It, They Will Come’ No Longer Works for Baseball—or Organized Religion
Houses of worship own thousands of acres across the U.S., and now through millions of dollars in new grants, congregations in Atlanta, New York, Baltimore, Miami, and Seattle will be building affordable housing on their ...
Tennessee megachurch pastor Tavner Smith said he is taking a month’s sabbatical to “spend some time with God” and get counseling after several staff members quit his church amid allegations he was having an affair ...
Supporting a full-time minister requires an average of 130 or more in worship, according to MacDonald, who cited research by the Hope Partnership for Missional Transformation, an Indianapolis-based consultancy that’s worked with hundreds of churches ...
The Baptist General Convention of Texas, one of few Southern Baptist groups that historically has not specifically excluded women from church leadership roles, passed a resolution at its 2021 General Convention earlier this month to ...
According to the recently released Faith Communities Today study, half of the congregations in the United States have 65 people or fewer, while two-thirds of congregations have fewer than 100.