Topic: Sociology
Mark Chaves: Gender, lay leadership and fancy rhetorical footwork
'Okay, you can give a talk from the pulpit -- but no preaching.'
Gerardo Marti: Our “tradition” is often a previous era’s cultural accommodation
Traditioned innovation will always have familiar elements. But let us all admit that innovation in church life is always taking place.
Thursday's News & Ideas
- Twitter gone awry
- Unchurched 20-somethings like orthodox doctrine, but not the church
- Should the UN ban "defamation of religion"?
Michael O. Emerson: Cracks in the Christian color wall
Large Protestant churches are more than twice as likely to be multiracial now compared to a decade ago. Why is that? And what does it mean for the rest of us?
Friday's News & Ideas
- Goodbye lucrative career; hello ministry
- Setting the stage for someone else to star
- How do we get the "nones" back to church?
Mark Chaves: Seminary training by tradition
If there are more congregations hiring staff without seminary training, it's not because they devalue learning. It's because seminary-trained people are more expensive.
Mark Chaves: Does our church need to hire a consultant or not?
Congregations hire consults for all sorts of reasons. Some of the reasons they give for doing so may surprise you. So too might some reasons they do not give.
Mark Chaves: Why do fewer black churches have websites than their white counterparts?
An astute comment here on C&R sent Chaves back to his study. His hypothesis, that the gap reflects a difference in resources, was only partly right.
Mark Chaves: Congregations give less to denominations
Denominations were in financial crisis even before the rest of the world was. For the past ten years congregations' income has increased, but their giving to their denominations has decreased.
Tuesday's News & Ideas
- Sociologists get religion
- African-American church women
- What’s wrong with the prayer breakfast?
- Seminaries booming in Atlanta
- Broader focus on the family
- Are we connecting?
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