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Chuck Knows Church: The Committee

Chuck Knows Church, a product of the United Methodist General Board of Discipleship, is launching a new series of web ...
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Female Catholic Priests: Muddied Organizational Waters

The Kansas City Star is reporting that Georgia Walker -- a woman -- became a Roman Catholic priest last Saturday ...
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Congregational Websites: An Issue of Size

Kelsey Dallas from the Deseret News wrote an article outlining the relationship between congregational size and the presence of a ...
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Friday Break: SNL’s St. Joseph’s Christmas Mass Spectacular

https://youtu.be/ZiuYmM0lG6o Saturday Night Live last weekend included "St. Joseph's Christmas Mass Spectacular," a satirical promotional video of church life around ...
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Death in Declining Congregations: A Case Study

More and more congregations within the United States are declining, and with that decline come church closures. In my dissertation ...
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A New Statue to Symbolize a Common Culture

Merging congregations involves combining each groups sets of congregational identities, histories, narratives, and symbols. A recent article from The Greenfield ...
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Pastoral Leadership that Matters: A UCC Study

Leadership matters. More specifically, pastoral leadership matters. In every setting of congregational life, talk of leadership abounds. In the United ...
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How Does a Pastor Work: A New Podcast from Slate

Check out the new podcast from Slate, called "Working." One of their first podcasts interviewed Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley of ...
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Congregational Snapshots: Understanding and Engaging Congregations through Cell Phone Photographs

This is the first post in a  series by the Congregational Studies Visual Methods Fellow, Roman R. Williams, Ph.D., Assistant Professor ...
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