Award-winning Christian musician advocate for adoption
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Learning from emotional HLG debate
No issue was quite as emotionally charged at last week's Missouri Baptist Convention annual meeting as the Hannibal-LaGrange College name change. To say that emotions ran high among alumni and students over the past few months would be an understatement.
Columnists cite faith factor in Republican sweep
ARLINGTON, Va. (ABP) -- A political consultant who received national attention for religious outreach for Democrats in 2006 said this year's election results show the party cannot afford to ignore faith and values voters.
Online clicks more than ‘slacktivism’
Advances in technology and the shrinking of the world now make it easier to reach out and minister to the world.
Maybe too easy, some think. Critics have coined the new term, "slacktivism," a combination of "slacker" and "activism."
After debate, HLG becomes Hannibal-LaGrange University
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Motion to drop Cooperative Program from rules tabled
SPRINGFIELD - Confusion over membership requirements led messengers to the Missouri Baptist Convention annual meeting to table eliminating Cooperative Program language from credentials committee rules.
Messengers resist effort to drop almost nine-year litigation battle
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‘Unchurched’ studies seek to understand why people leave
Seeking to develop strategies to prevent formerly active members from leaving through the so-called “back door,” LifeWay Research has conducted surveys to better understand why people leave.
Study finds large churches can do better at retaining members
Large congregations are more likely than small churches to emphasize evangelism and recruitment of new members but significantly less likely to contact members who stop attending, according to a recent study.
Why do people leave churches?
Many churches and denominations put a lot of effort into attracting new members only to lose many of them through a “back door”— a term used to describe people who regularly attended a church in the past but stopped.