ESSAY: DON’T ROMANTICISE SUFFERING FOLLOWING THE AURORA MASS SHOOTING
Writing in the wake of another mass shooting in the US, JAMIE D ATEN, executive director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College and spokesperson for anti-gun violence advocacy Prayers & Action, looks at the connection of growth and suffering…
Canadian study finds churches with conservative theology still growing
RNS Canadian researchers are revisiting a hotly debated sociological question: Why do some churches decline while others succeed? Since the 1960s, overall membership in mainline Protestant Christian churches has been dropping in both the US and Canada. But some congregations have continued to grow, and a team of researchers believes it now knows why. It’s the conservative […]