No Raise for Pastors
Survey shows average salary and benefits decline.
Trouble Brewing
Is a relaxed attitude toward alcohol among clergy leading to a new battle over prohibition?
Leader’s Insight: A Broad and Diverse Bloc
New research shows five kinds of Christians in America.
Group Effort
Four approaches to congregational evangelism.
Shifting Family Values
The ties that bind feel looser at church and tighter at the parsonage.
Before the Next Sex Scandal
How your church and your pastor may prevent the predictable.
Terri Schiavo Dies
Plus: Villain of the day George Felos, what the Colorado court really said about the Bible and juries, Catholic school deemed exempt from antidiscrimination law, Falwell improving after losing consciousness, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Terri Schiavo, Easter, and Much More
Few weeks are as heavy on religion news, or death news, as this one.
Restoring Fallen Pastors
The road back to ministry after a moral lapse—whether physical or virtua—is long and difficult. How can the restoration process be improved?
Back from the Brink: A Leadership Special Report
Disastrous conflict, moral failure, spiritual depression, or simply long, slow decline. Churches do come back from debilitating trauma. How?