Despite their higher educational attainment and movement to senior leadership positions, female pastors typically have smaller compensation levels than do male pastors. The average package for female pastors in 2009 is $45,300. The median compensation for male pastors is $48,600.
Ten years ago or so major daily newspapers were in the process of beefing up their religion reporting. The role of the Moral Majority and the newly activist religious voices in everyday politics meant that what religious voices were saying was important to cover. That was then. Now, not so much.
Just 19% of congregations described their financial health as “excellent”; and signs of vitality such as mission awareness and worship attendance have slipped in the past eight years.
“On Faith” at the Washington Post/Newsweek blog notes that some worshipers are bringing weapons to worship in order to protect themselves.
One in every 33 women who attend worship services regularly has been the target of sexual advances by a religious leader, a survey released Wednesday says.
The New York Times visited some seaside congregations, two of them Episcopal, and find vibrant, welcoming communities of faith.
Conservative activists have begun a push to change the textbook standards used in schools across the state of Texas to express their particular views of American History in a way similar to what anti-evolutionists accomplished in the ’80’s and ’90’s.
“Our results suggest that postmodernism, rather than science, is the bête noir — the strongest antagonist — of religiosity.”
President Obama wants to appoint Dr. Francis Collins to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health. Collins is a physical chemist, a
Why, if God wants to reward the faithful with material possessions, are so many believers in foreclosure?