Higher Life Expectancy Means Lower Church Attendance

"As life expectancy increases, churches should expect to see more gray hair and fewer young people in the pews. That's the result of a new analysis of people's religious decisions."

Five Major Trends for Churches in America

"The trends that follow were not created in a vacuum. Most the information is based on studies we have done at LifeWay Research."

Christian Churches in Canada Fading Out: USA Next?

"A new assessment of the state of the church in Canada looks at the Anglican Diocese of British Columbia and then across the country and concludes that, '... at the present rate of decline -- a loss of 13,000 members per year -- only one Anglican would be left in Canada by 2061.'"

Decade in Review: New Leaders, Scandal, Conflict in Religion

"The decade's religious news featured scandal, conflict, new leaders and a new statistical portrait of American religiosity. . ."

Year in Review: God, Politics, Pop Culture Intertwined in '09

A retrospective on subjects related to religion/politics/popular culture that appeared in 2009.

Barna Studies the Research, Offers a Year-in-Review Perspective

"Based on his company’s interviews with thousands of people during the year, researcher George Barna synthesized the findings across numerous studies and summarized four themes that emerged from his research regarding religion in 2009."

Interview with Robert Wuthnow: Global is the New Local

"Today, globalized economic and communications networks create new possibilities for American congregations, says Princeton University's Robert Wuthnow in his most recent book, Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches. Since 2000, for instance, 12 percent of active churchgoers reported having gone overseas on a short-term mission while in their teen years. That is up from 5 percent in the 1990s, 4 percent in the 1980s, and only 2 percent before that. Currently, this represents about 100,000 congregations (or one-third of all congregations) every year sending teams that average about 18 members."

A Faith for the Nones

"There is a book that everyone will be talking about -- when it appears over a year from now. "American Grace: How Religion Is Reshaping Our Civic and Political Lives," being written by Robert Putnam and David Campbell, is already creating a buzz. Putnam, the author of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, is the preeminent academic expert on American civic life. . ."

The End of Christian America

"The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. How that statistic explains who we are now—and what, as a nation, we are about to become."

Time: 10 Ideas That are Changing the World

Included in this slideshow is an item on "the new Calvinism."