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Church Decline and Recovery During COVID-19, Part 2
A national project aims to understand the impact of the pandemic on the church attendance, giving, staffing, and church leadership. Enoch Hill, Jason Long, Cole Serfass, Nichole Shepherd, and Ryan Smith Image: Canva
Most of us are aware of the effects of COVID on our home church. Many of us have heard accounts of various other churches through conversations with friends and colleagues. But it is hard to know what these individual stories mean for the church as a whole.
The National COVID-19 Church Attendance Project (NCCAP) represents our efforts to try to see the bigger picture. By gathering as many individual church stories as possible, from all over the country, we aim to provide a broad sense of the impact of COVID on the church and what the path to recovery has looked like so far. Through the collaboration of Wheaton College, Exponential, Outreach, and the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center, our initial survey
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Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy to host book launch and talk on “Faithful Presence” with author Gov. Bill Haslam
The Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy and Vanderbilt Divinity School will present a discussion on the role that religious faith plays in politics as explored in Faithful Presence: The Promise and the Peril of Faith in the Public Square, a new book by former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam.
The event is scheduled for Tuesday, May 25, from noon to 1 p.m. CT.
The event is virtual and open to the public. Registered participants may submit a question for consideration by the moderator.
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