Monday's Catch: 'Predicting Your Worship Attendance for the Next Year' And More

Predicting Your Worship Attendance for the Next Year
Can you really predict your church’s worship attendance for the next year? Our answer is “maybe.”

Being the Church: Church Attendance Isn’t the Goal
Regular church attendance must always be the beginning of Christian responsibility but never the end of it.

A Witness for the Creator (Part One): Creation Care as Stewardship
Taking care of our planet can be a winsome witness to unbelievers and the next generation of Christians. Here are simple ways to get started.

Were Later Versions of Christianity Radically Different than Earlier Ones? Reflecting on Recent Scholarly Claims
"I think it’s fair to say that the last decade has witnessed a bit of a resurgence of academic interest in early Christianity," writes Michael J. Kruger.

3 Reasons to Believe in the Resurrection
It’s not just Christians who believe in improbabilities. We all live inside a glorious absurdity called existence.

5 Reasons to Go to Prayer Meeting
None of us needs another excuse to skip our church’s prayer meeting. What we need instead are a few reasons for going.

Does your church even have a weekly prayer meeting? My church has an intercessory prayer group and an intercessory prayer network, but it does not hold regular prayer meetings to which the whole congregation is invited. The intercessory prayer group's meetings are open to its members only. Intercessory prayer does not feature prominently in its Sunday services. How about your church?

The religiously unaffiliated celebrate Easter more widely than you'd think
... recent research finds that when it comes to Easter practices, some "nones" are perhaps not as irreligious as they are commonly depicted, especially if their social circles are likely to be celebrating the holiday.

Religious 'nones' reach record high in Spain after pandemic
The number of people in Spain with no religion has reached an all time high, according to a new report. The report, published last month by the Ferrer i Guardia Foundation, found that religious "nones" reached 39.3% of the population in 2022, a dramatic leap from 27.5% in 2019, prior to the start of the pandemic.Commenting on the findings, the foundation said that the pandemic had "accelerated the process of secularisation" in Spain.