Church Attendance

One measure of the decline of church strength and authority is church membership and attendance. And by that measure, US secularity is rising to surprising heights.

The thundering roar of American Bible-thumping may be drowning out the patter of footsteps leaving the pews. America may be trailing Europe, but it seems be on the same path.

Large numbers of Americans are hankering for experiential faith whereby they can connect with God, the divine, or wonder as well as with their neighbors and that lead to a more profound sense of meaning in the world.

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Almost half of churchgoing Americans say their life has not changed a bit due to their time in the ...

BALTIMORE -- The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops says the church should not be dismissed as an outmoded bureaucracy. Archbishop ...

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) American congregations have grown less healthy in the last decade, with fewer people in the pews an...

By Nicole Neroulias Religion News Service (RNS) A new study reporting that white Americans without college degrees are dropping out of church fast...

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When surveyed, almost all Americans say they believe in God, a majority say they pray and more than a third say they go to religious services every we...

While overall church attendance has declined slightly in the United States in recent decades, a new study says attendance at religious services among ...

By Adelle M. Banks c. 2011 Religion News Service (RNS) Women, long considered the dominant pew dwellers in the nation's churches, have shown a dra...

In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.

Efforts to oppose the personal and social ills of gambling by a broad range of religious groups, from Southern Baptists to United Methodists, have not been in vain, according to a developing body of research.

Have we, as American pastors, given up our calling as shepherds and unknowingly become fast food entrepreneurs who are building a religious business and not a church?

By Trevor Grundy Religion News Service CANTERBURY, ENGLAND (RNS/ENInews) In a challenge to conventional wisdom that church attendance is plummeting a...

Yes, Easter is an important celebration in the life of the church, but I would posit that God might be more pleased if we approached this Easter time in our worship life a little differently.

Religious faith in America certainly has something to offer. Will it once again find its voice?