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But experts say it can offer opportunities for leaders and congregations to grow.

Preaching legend and longtime professor Robert Smith Jr. is retiring after years of scholarship, accolades, and personal loss.

Overall church membership is up by nearly 10 percent in the region.

With a record number of congregations predicted to close their doors by 2025, multiuse developments may be the future for shrinking congregations and empty buildings.

Yet baptism and attendance numbers continue to recover from pandemic declines.

Yet churches struggle to prepare those coming next.

Evangelicals who minister to and among the undocumented call the state’s proposal “an assault to religious liberty.”

Conservative Anglicans’ gathering in April comes after the Church of England’s “disqualifying” decision to bless same-sex marriages.

Two British citizens face criminal penalties for violating buffer zones.

Overall, most churchgoers—including most white evangelicals—returned to the pews after the pandemic, survey finds.

But a recent ECFA study can’t quantify intangible signs of growth.

New survey finds just 6 percent of Australians are heavily involved in the faith.

Houston’s College of Biblical Studies, where three-quarters of students are Black or Hispanic, finds ministry partners in DTS and Tony Evans.

The Christian legal advocates with Alliance Defending Freedom are now working in over a hundred countries.

Despite recent legal cases and reports of greedy abuses, experts say the longstanding benefit remains safe.

Leaders cite missiological methods and the work of the Spirit as the reasons for the surprising statistics.

Political tensions in the pews have calmed, and another survey shows leaders’ Trump support yielded more positives than negatives for evangelicals.

The pandemic intensified existing economic challenges for churches—and catalyzed new ones.

The suburban DC megachurch’s recent scuffle over race and politics is symptomatic of a broader evangelical rift.