A recent report on Southern Baptist churches from Lifeway Research found that about 58% of those congregations said they do background checks on staff who work with kids, with small congregations ...

Today, services attract only a few dozen, mostly older, congregants. "We're a small church," he acknowledges. "We're never going to be hundreds of people in attendance." Last fall, the United ...

church schisms and a pair of worldwide pandemics in its more than a century and a half of ministry in this small Southern Illinois town, about an hour east of St. Louis. For 156 years, church ...