According to a new study conducted by sociologists Hui-Tzu Grace Chou and Nicholas Edge at Utah Valley University, research showed a correlation between a Facebook user’s disposition about their life and the amount of time spent on the social network. Approximately 425 students were asked...

… to 923,700. Marriages were up 4%. Interesting supplemental information though, from this article from Christian Today: Despite the drop in attendance at Church services, there is positive news in the growth of fresh expressions of church. The figures show that there are at least 1,000...

My friend Geoff Surratt is continuing his 5 Scary Trends series… Scary trend #3 is “Worship Worship”.  Geoff writes: I love corporate worship. One of my favorite aspects of working in multisite churches has been visiting multiple worship experiences every weekend. I have...

Barna has a new survey out.  Most Americans have first-hand experiences in churches or parishes. What happens, if anything, in the hearts and minds of those who attend? Here are some of the findings: (66%) feel they have had “a real and personal connection” with God while attending...

My friend and fellow church world agitator Geoff Surratt has a really great series he’s doing at his blog this week called “Five Scary Trends that could Shipwreck the Church”. He started the series yesterday with his first scary trend:  Multisite.  Funny… from one of...

News flash:  Teens would rather talk face to face than text. That’s the news in this new report… interesting...

More than three-quarters of Americans identify themselves as Christian, Gallup reports. Pollsters found that 78 percent of Americans identify with Christianity. Overall, more than 82 percent of Americans have a religious identity, with this percentage breakdown: 52.5:...

According to the Christian Post, the latest version of the popular NIV Bible translation has had its verses on homosexuality reworded, making them clearer in denouncing the practice, according to Dr. Douglas J. Moo for Wheaton Collage, a theologian who helped with...

What will the church need to deal with in the next 10 years? Ed Stetzer gives some thoughts: 1.  Churches that used to been ‘seeker targeted’ will find that many people just aren’t seeking that much anymore.  They have no ‘religious memory’ as Ed calls it. ...

Surging arrests of American youths are up at an alarming 10 percent compared to ten years ago.  The number of adults arrested has spiked as well, along with the amount of people imprisoned. Since the 1970′s the United States has taken a much more aggressive stance on crime. In the...

A recent LifeWay Research study found that Americans with even a slight curiosity about an ultimate purpose to life are more likely to participate in worship services, while half of those who never attend church never wonder about life’s ultimate purpose. Approximately 75 percent of the...

One in every seven minutes online and three out of every four minutes on social networking sites are spent onFacebook, according to a comScore report released Tuesday. When you read things like this, does it cause you to re-think how you’re approaching ministry? How are you engaging...

Gallup finds that of those adhering to a religious identity, Americans who considered themselves Christian made up 95 percent of respondents. 15% did not subscribe to any religious identity; but only 8% of Americans say they do not believe in God. Another find from Gallop:  81 percent of...

NEWS FLASH #1:  The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life published a demographic report this week on the size and distribution of the world’s Christian population and revealed that Pentecostals and charismatics make up more than a quarter of all...

The majority of Americans have a favorable impression of Southern Baptists, according to a recent LifeWay Research study. However, 40 percent of respondents have an unfavorable view of the denomination, more than a third strongly assume an SBC church is not for them, and the negativity is...