Imagine how much less your church would accomplish if it was forced to cut 30 percent of its budget. Such a scenario is already playing out in many churches across the United States as tithes and offerings are stagnant or in decline.
For the past 25 years, the number of Americans claiming no religion has steadily ballooned as more and more people quit church, synagogue or mosque and openly acknowledged being a “none.” But that growth may be leveling off.
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About 26 percent of Americans 65 and older identify as white evangelical Protestants, but only 8 percent of those ages 18 to 29. Some evangelical leaders are tidying up the kitchen over repealing the Johnson amendment and saying "Merry Christmas" while the house burns down around them.
(RNS) — Four powerful and irreversible forces are rapidly transforming the Jewish and Christian worlds.
But many leaders in both communities are unable or unwilling to