Ryan Burge – Tag – MinistryWatch
New Lifeway Research study found most pastors optimistic about the future
American organized religion has been on the decline for decades, but churches aren’t dead yet.
And if so, how?
While it’s not hard to imagine reasons for this decline in trust (we’ll get to that momentarily) what I want to focus on is the question, Should we trust churches?
Tony Campolo, an American Baptist minister and sociologist who spent decades trying to convince evangelicals and other Christians that their faith should motivate them to address social ills like poverty and racism, has died.
Researcher Ryan Burge has documented church decline for years. This Sunday his own church held its final service.
First Baptist Church survived a tornado, church schisms and a pair of worldwide pandemics in its more than a century and a half of ministry in this small Southern Illinois town, about an hour east ...
But Non-Denoms and Anglicans Are On The Rise
MinistryWatch President Warren Smith comments on one or more stories in the week’s news, adding an additional perspective or, sometimes, a behind-the-scenes look at how the story came to be.
Recent trends regarding age distribution in the SBC are causing next generation leaders to reflect on building up the future of the Convention.
In recent years, the CBN and its allies, including Ascol’s Florida-based Founders Ministries, a Calvinist group, and Sovereign Nations, a Christian nationalist group, have made national headlines for their claims about liberal drift in the ...
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.
