Topic: Congregations
Thursday's News & Ideas
- Canterbury to bankers: Repent
- Still waiting in Duxbury
- Clueless about leadership
- Gut instinct
Tuesday's News & Ideas
- Is church "code" hurting church growth?
- Evangelicals & Catholics Together after Neuhaus
- No one builds statues of committees
Wednesday's News & Ideas
- Terry Eagleton on the New Atheists: Even the "cruelties and stupidities that the Irish Church has perpetrated do not prevent me from recalling how, without it, generations of my own ancestors would have gone unschooled, unnursed, unconsoled and unburied."
- Even high-paid search firms can't find the "right" senior pastor
- The corporate world is an addict. Its drug of choice? Change
Mark Chaves: Congregations are followers rather than leaders
Congregations are slightly wealthier and better educated than a decade ago. But those numbers are misleading. In fact, congregations tend to mirror social changes rather than catalyze them.
Mark Chaves: How common is congregational conflict?
How often do churches fight? Are some congregations perennially at odds? The National Congregations Study has some answers.
Monday's News & Ideas
- Church papers struggle
- ELCA vote: ‘Too close to call'
- No recession for prosperity gospel
- Positively Medieval
Michael Jinkins: The abba replies with a word
Last week we posted Tom Arthur's questions as a young pastor in a start-up congregation modeled on megachurches to his elder, Michael Jinkins, about his "Letters to New Pastors," which assumed a very different pastoral context. Here is Jinkins' reply.
Mark Chaves: Congregational size
Most congregations in the United States are small, but most people are in large congregations.
Mark Chaves: Are congregations graying faster than everyone else?
Religious leaders have often lamented that they have too many old people and too few young people. It turns out that such leaders in the US have good reason to worry.
Mark Chaves: Congregations are more ethnically diverse
Fewer congregations are 100 percent white and non-Hispanic, according to the National Congregations Study.
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