Church & Ministry

“Pastors 65 and older (46%) and those with no college degree (52%) are more likely to say they haven’t known any church members with a severe mental illness.” - Lifeway

“Two Southern Baptist pastors with recent leadership experience in addressing sexual abuse in the SBC will fill similar roles with the Abuse Response Implementation Task Force (ARITF).” - BPNews

“Love is a great ideal, until we have to work it out with other people, then we begin to wonder if love is worth all the grief. It’s time-consuming, expensive and, worst of all, it’s not all-about-me.” - C.Leaders

“Haggard, 66, is being accused of using methamphetamine and behaving inappropriately with young men at St. James Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a church he founded in 2010” - RNS

“…’Welcome times’ when members stand and guests remain seated. ‘Introduction times’ when guests stand and members remain seated. Ushers handing out name tags or info cards to seated guests as a part of the service (while all eyes are on them).” - Church Answers

“Barber is the first SBC president in nearly two decades not to emerge from an urban or suburban megachurch.” - RNS

“Many search team mistakes are inevitable, yet most are avoidable. Here are five common mistakes pastor search teams can avoid.” - Lifeway

“Despite recent trends, formal theological training still plays an important role in the evangelical church.” - CToday

“In the U.S., FBI hate crime statistics show that incidents in churches, synagogues, temples and mosques increased 34.8% between 2014 and 2018.” - BPNews

“it was the spirit of honest inquiry, not polemical argumentation, that prompted me to write the article, inviting atheist readers to respond” - Michael Brown