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Are white evangelical pastors at odds with their congregants? A new study says no.
By Yonat Shimron — August 9, 2023
(RNS) — A new study shows white evangelical clergy are as conservative, if not more so, as the people in their churches.
Study: US clergy favor medical treatment for depression
By Yonat Shimron — January 12, 2023
(RNS) — The study reports that 90% of clergy respondents said they would encourage someone with depressive symptoms to see a mental health professional.
Study: Attendance hemorrhaging at small and midsize US congregations
By Yonat Shimron — October 14, 2021
(RNS) — The Faith Communities Today survey finds that half of the country’s congregations had 65 or fewer people in attendance on any given weekend, a drop from a median attendance level of 137 people in 2000.
Study: Liberal congregations more politically active than conservative ones
By Yonat Shimron — September 18, 2020
(RNS) — The willingness of left-leaning religious congregations to engage in political activity has spiked in the Trump era, new research shows.
Is American religion exceptional? Maybe, maybe not
By Yonat Shimron — November 19, 2018
(RNS) — Dueling sociologists can't agree on whether the most intensely religious segment of the American population is shrinking.
New research shows that women’s ordination boosts trust and commitment among some American worshippers
By Jana Riess — June 29, 2018
Women's ordination has an effect on women in the pews, a new national study finds. Congregations that give women the potential of gender equality in leadership can increase women's trust in, and commitment to, their religious communities.
The US: One nation not quite under God
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — March 11, 2016
(RNS) Long viewed as the most religious developed nation, America is slipping toward secularism, like the rest of the West, a new study finds.
Forget the numbers. The big story is that religion has lost social influence. (ANALYSIS)
By Arthur E. Farnsley II — May 26, 2015
(RNS) Behind the story of Christian decline and the rise of “nones” is a long-standing debate about what religion theorists call “secularization,” the broad process by which religion gradually loses its social influence.
US churches feel beat of change: More diversity, more drums
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — September 11, 2014
(RNS) Gay and lesbian acceptance, increasing racial diversity and growing spontaneity in worship are among the findings in the latest National Congregations Study.
Some Seventh-day Adventists forge ahead on women clergy
By Adelle M. Banks — December 3, 2013
(RNS) For now, statements from church headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., focus less on gender and more on concern that regional church bodies have forged ahead with their own decisions without consensus from the wider denomination.
Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan GOP ticket reflects religious shift
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — August 21, 2012
(RNS) The 2012 GOP ticket _ two Christians who are neither evangelical nor mainline Protestants _ isn't a major marker of social change, experts say, but rather a refection of today's wider, less brand-specific Christian culture. By Cathy Lynn Grossman.
Survey finds record 19 percent of religiously unaffiliated Americans
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — July 20, 2012
(RNS) Unbelief is on the uptick. People who check "None" for their religious affiliation are now nearly one in five Americans (19 percent), the highest ever documented, according to the Pew Center for the People and the Press. By Cathy Lynn Grossman.
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