When I talked to a few frustrated rural pastors, at the heart of their frustration was the sense that because there was not a large...

This story is familiar. In 1972, and after 308 years, the First Church of Newton, Mass., called it quits. It gave its assets to a museum,...

In his 1983 acceptance speech for the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, [Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn] recalled the words he heard as a...

One of the least fun parts of my work is telling a church it is time to let go. When I have to discuss this possibility with leadership,...