membership
Measuring COVID-19’s effect: Southern Baptists report 19% attendance drop
By Adelle M. Banks — May 12, 2022
(RNS) — Beyond a rise in baptisms, the only other growth Southern Baptists saw in 2021 was in financial giving.
Conservative synagogues can now officially accept non-Jews as members
By Lauren Markoe — March 7, 2017
(RNS) By an overwhelming vote, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism voted to accept non-Jews as synagogue members.
Southern Baptists decline as Assemblies of God grow
By Adelle M. Banks — June 7, 2016
(RNS) The Assemblies of God are benefiting from immigration -- particularly from Central and South America as well as Africa -- much more than the Southern Baptist Convention, an expert said.
Episcopal Presiding Bishop Michael Curry recovering from surgery
By Adelle M. Banks — December 9, 2015
(RNS) The medical setback for the church’s leader comes as the 1.9 million-member faith group faces new statistics indicating its continuing slide in membership and participation.
The one group still excluded from the Boy Scouts — atheists
By William Cummings — July 29, 2015
The vote by the Boy Scouts of America's board to lift the organization's ban on gay scout leaders is just the latest chapter in a long history of controversy over who merits the right to wear the scout uniform.
Supreme Court’s pending same-sex ruling to dominate Southern Baptist meeting
By Adelle M. Banks — June 11, 2015
(RNS) “(W)e will not honor any decision by the Supreme Court which will force us to violate a clear biblical understanding of marriage as solely the union of one man and one woman,” SBC leaders said in a newspaper ad.
Southern Baptists meet as membership, baptism decline continues
By Adelle M. Banks — June 4, 2014
(RNS) All three of the candidates for Southern Baptist Convention president have ideas about overcoming the malaise in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
Sidebar: Southern Baptist membership continues decline
By Adelle M. Banks — June 13, 2012
(RNS) For the fifth year in a row, the Southern Baptist Convention has seen a drop in its total membership, dipping below the 16 million figure to 15.9 million in 2011. By Adelle M. Banks.
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