Lifeway Research
Survey: 1 in 3 Protestants think more stories of abuse by pastors yet to come
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 21, 2019
(RNS) — There’s both good news and bad news in the numbers in the latest LifeWay survey, which asked Protestant churchgoers wide-ranging questions about sexual misconduct and the church.
Survey: Black millennials skip church as early adults more than whites
By Adelle M. Banks — March 18, 2019
(RNS) — But equal percentages of black and white young adults say they currently attend a congregation regularly, a LifeWay Research analysis shows.
There are no real evangelicals. Only imagined ones.
By Kristin Kobes Du Mez — February 6, 2019
(RNS) — There are, in fact, many evangelicalisms and each has a different center and different boundaries.
Survey shows more pastors preach about abuse in #MeToo age
By Adelle M. Banks — September 18, 2018
COLUMBUS, Ohio (RNS) — The survey by LifeWay Research offers a detailed look at Protestant pastors’ attitudes and actions related to abuse and harassment.
Churchgoers say gifts to charity, needy count as tithing
By Adelle M. Banks — May 10, 2018
(RNS) — 'For many churchgoers, tithing is just another term for generosity,' said LifeWay Research's Scott McConnell.
Life in a fishbowl: Survey gives voice to pastors’ spouses
By Adelle M. Banks — September 12, 2017
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — While 85 percent of respondents said their church takes “good care of us,” 6 in 10 agreed that their family’s financial needs are not met by their church salary.
Good works of churches often go unnoticed
By Adelle M. Banks — July 20, 2017
(RNS) — Scant percentages of the 1,000 Americans surveyed knew that church members teach job skills, help immigrants learn English or provide tax preparation assistance.
When it’s sexuality versus religion, Americans stand divided
By Adelle M. Banks — June 29, 2017
(RNS) They also don’t agree on whether faith or hate is the motivator for religious believers’ opposition to sexual freedoms.
The Bible – helpful, but not read much
By Adelle M. Banks — April 25, 2017
(RNS) Just over half (53 percent) have read relatively little of it, and 1 in 10 haven’t read it at all.
Some Protestant pastors preach on race but most leave it to others
By Adelle M. Banks — March 30, 2017
(RNS) A new LifeWay Research survey also finds that most pastors have not addressed economic inequities in their communities or joined a public lament about racial injustice.
Juggling faith and family when Christmas is on Sunday
By Adelle M. Banks — December 22, 2016
(RNS) Christmas on a Sunday can present a conundrum as pastors try to balance parishioners' sacred religious observance at church with family time at home.
On God and heaven, Americans are all over the map
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 28, 2016
(RNS) A new study suggests Americans as a whole hold seemingly incompatible beliefs on the nature of God and heaven.
Pastors rarely asked to wed same-sex couples
By Adelle M. Banks — August 18, 2016
(RNS) Researchers also found that fewer than half of Protestant senior pastors say their churches permit LGBT people to serve, even in limited ways.
God? Meaning of life? Many Americans don’t seek them in church
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — June 28, 2016
(RNS) “Are a lot of Americans on a conscious journey to learn who Jesus Christ is? I don’t think so,” said LifeWay Research's Scott McConnell.
Christians oppose payday loans as ‘sinful’
By Kimberly Winston — April 13, 2016
(RNS) More than 80 percent of Christians believe their states should have laws that regulate payday loans, which have interest rates sometimes as high as 400 percent.
