An expert on LDS Church growth analyzes the 55 new missions coming next year and what they say about where the faith is expanding around the world.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The former lead pastors and founders of Celebration Church filed a new federal complaint accusing a church planting organization and three other pastors of masterminding a ...

Over the last two decades, studies continue to appear showing that church attendance is declining and the so called “nones,” those who do not identify with any faith group, are on the rise. These ...

A look at how church growth shapes both the blessings and the burdens of pastoral leadership. “Things just aren’t the same around here.” I have heard statements like this throughout my ministry, often ...

After hearing from nearly 7,000 returned Latter-day Saint missionaries — with their reports of hasty baptisms, uncooperative members and cultural barriers — researcher Matt Martinich came to a strong ...

When the World Mis­sionary Con­ference gathered in Edin­burgh in 1910, it would have taken real optimism to identify Korea as a prospect for major Christian growth. At that point, Christians made up ...

(RNS) — If yesterday’s temple was a prize bestowed on area members when they had achieved certain milestones related to growth, today’s temple is a jumper cable, a tool to re-energize the sputtering ...

U.S. church attendance is dropping, but Hope Church in Memphis, Tennessee, is packing the pews — or, in Hope’s case, modern theater seats with individual cup holders. The Evangelical Presbyterian ...

Philip Jenkins says we need a theology of church extinction. In our time, we are witnessing an extraordinary phenomenon: the virtual wiping out of the church in a place it has existed for nearly 2,000 ...

During General Conference, buried in the official statistics that make up the LDS Church’s annual report, we learned that the LDS Church grew by 261,862 people in 2015, a 1.7% annual increase. Lots of ...