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We’re getting a new pastor! What can I do?

When leadership changes, so do churches. A pastor who has been there before shares lessons learned and tips to make things work well right from the start.

Is Your Church Ready for Generation Z?

Is the church ready for Generation Z? We sat down with some members of the generation and many don't believe the church is ready for them.

4 Pivotal Steps for Pastors in Transition

We often think about Pastor Search teams vetting pastors, but for the pastor in transition, it is so important that a pastor vet a church. Wise pastoral candidates will not avoid this important step. Here are some common steps that some pastors take to learn more about a prospective church. But how? Seek the LORD …

Why Church Leaders Need the Church

When you are in need, let the body serve. You will be better off for it, and you will get a chance to experience the ministry of the church to you.

14 Book Gift Ideas for Everyone on Your List

Find fantastic nonfiction reads on music, history, travel, inspired living and more

60 Book Gift Ideas for Reluctant Readers Ages 6 to 12

I'm that aunt that always gives books as presents for birthdays and holidays. I love browsing bookstores thinking about what my nieces and nephews would enjoy reading, taking into account their inter

Is there a happy ending to the story for the Book House and other indie book stores?

When is the last time you bought a book at a bookstore? Not a virtual bookstore -- an actual, brick and mortar, physical space where you browse and read and walk around and maybe even talk with clerks or other readers bookstore? A place like Market Block, or The Book

Do Megachurches Provide a Better Religious Experience than Smaller Churches?

Leadership Network’s work with innovative pastors regularly pairs us with megachurches. Indeed, in recent years no one has done more megachurch research than us.Thought leader @lensweet recently tweeted “No one knows more about...

Building Churches and Religious Facilities

The Bobbitt design & construction portfolio includes religious facilities of all types & sizes. See how design build could work for your specific needs.

Book Gift Ideas: Black Feminist memoirs on justice, Africanfuturism, theoretical physics, and...

Honestly, memoir is an anemic category for these books. These are field guides for time travel and the survival of the earth. The words and stories are confessions and counsel, offerings of honest …

How Religious Are You?

Pew Research has developed a typology of religion based on "how religious" a person is, along with the nature of that religious belief.

Why so many non-religious Europeans pay church taxes

Religious Reefer: Is Marijuana Halal?

Is marijuana halal? Unsurprisingly, the answer isn't so cut and dry.

Three Trends in Local Churches That Are Accelerating

The surprise is the accelerated growth of these trends. In just a few years, these approaches have become more commonplace than most would have predicted.

How to Assess Your Church’s Well-Being

Take seriously the call to assess your church’s health and effectiveness as you make disciples, and watch God help your church thrive.

What if Churches Started Churches?

Good churches should add “church starting” to the list of ingredients that define their health.

‘Religious buildings can’t be built as encroachments’

The chief justice observed that the entire city had been totally disfigured due to unauthorized constructions which could not be seen to be rectified.

How the religious typology groups compare

Explore how the seven religious typology groups view a variety of issues.

Religious Publishers Hope to Guide the Grieving

Faith-based titles seek to provide healing and hope after loss.

How to Grow a Virtual Religious Society

Think religion is all about individual beliefs? Think again. The great sociologist Émile Durk...