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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.
Behind Gallup’s portrait of church decline
By Wesley Granberg-Michaelson — March 31, 2021
(RNS) — America’s religious life will be shaped not by secularization alone.
Analysis: Congregations can’t make up for proposed federal budget cuts
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 26, 2017
(RNS) Based on an analysis by Bread for the World, every religious congregation in the U.S. would have to raise an additional $714,000 every year for the next 10 years to make up for the 2018 budget cuts President Trump has proposed.
On LGBT issues, how can Christians disagree in a loving way?
By Jonathan Merritt — November 1, 2016
Is it possible to disagree about LGBT issues without demonizing others as haters or heretics, Pharisees or apostates?
Most churchgoers are hearing politics from the pulpit: report
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 8, 2016
(RNS) Black Protestant Christians were most likely to hear about the candidates at church.
What Southern Baptists must do to slow their decline
By Jonathan Merritt — June 11, 2013
New data reveals that America's largest Protestant denomination is declining. What must they do to stop the bleeding?
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