When the congregation of Community Covenant Church decided to close its doors forever, only about 12-15 people were attending services regularly. The decision to close wasn’t an easy one — the church, ...

Perhaps the biggest religious story of the 2010s was the so-called "Great De-Churching," a historic shift in American beliefs and lifestyles away from organized religion and toward, well ...

This is Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here. As an agnostic, I have spent most of my life thinking about the ...

abstract. In recent years, faith communities across the United States have begun to create affordable housing on church property, inspired by sincerely held religious beliefs. Some are building ...

On Sunday mornings, our family does something unusual. We wake our three teenagers earlier than they want, shower and dress up a little bit, and drive seven minutes up the road to our local church ...

What’s interesting is the rate of churching in counties that are older in nature is worse. However, when you look at the people who are dechurching, they are typically de churching in the 13 to ...

ABSTRACT: This article is a contribution to the growing literature on the economics of religion. Indeed, to our knowledge, there is no study aimed at explaining the behavior of a revival church from a ...

Leaders of all faiths should look at America’s de-churching and find better paths to people’s hearts. For positive proof, you need to look no further than one of America’s most successful ...

In "The Gay Science," Friedrich Nietzsche tells "The Parable of the Madman." In it, a madman lights a lantern in the early morning, runs to the marketplace and declares, "God is dead." ...