Prevent Dechurching: 3 Critical Questions Your Church Should Ask If the church in America is going to make any meaningful progress toward addressing the 40 million adults who’ve left the church in the last 30 years, we must run on two mission-critical train tracks: individual and institutional. The Ideal Church
The Great Dechurching Will Hurt Poor People Members of mainline denominations as a percentage of the US population have dropped to the single digits. That’s bad news for the poor and vulnerable. 3 Touchstones of Welcoming Newcomers Today What was once perceived as welcoming may no longer resonate with the
Ryan Burge explains ‘casual dechurching’ The majority of Americans leaving the church do so for rather humdrum reasons, sociologist of religion Ryan Burge said during a recent episode of the “CBF Podcast.” This phenomenon is known as “casual dechurching” and is typically overlooked because it’s not as headline-grabbing as disputes