Topic: Congregations
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: What congregations are more political?
You might think white conservative Protestants are more political than black or mainline Protestants or Catholics. You’d be wrong.
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.
Friday's News & Ideas
- Canterbury to Wall Street
- Arbitrary ad policy at CBS?
- Charismatic leadership
- Tough questions at the church door
- One-generation churches
- First step of ethics: Listen
- Out of Auschwitz
Richard L. Floyd: “Prophetic” pastors who don’t love the church
If the main reason you become a pastor is to promote some cause, then your soul is in danger, and so is the congregation's.
Mark Chaves: Congregations are more ethnically diverse
Fewer congregations are 100 percent white and non-Hispanic, according to the National Congregations Study.
Mark Chaves: Congregational Tolerance
As much as we hear about how intolerant religious people are, you may be surprised to know what sorts of behaviors and beliefs congregations will tolerate not only in their members, but in their lay leaders.
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