Reformation
by Josh Packard My Lutheran friends will remember that the last Sunday in October was Reformation Sunday, commemorating Martin Luther nailing the 95 theses to the door of the church…
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What Next? How Some Churches are Coming Alongside the Dones
by Josh Packard I’ve had some amazing opportunities these past few months to travel around and lead some workshops about Church Refugees, explain The Dechurched Project, and even introduce people…
What’s Going On In There?
by Josh Packard I am right in the middle of conference season. Last week I was in Chicago for the joint Association for the Sociology of Religion and American Sociological…
Exodus of the Religious Dones: How many dones are there?
by Josh Packard Last week, Group released the results of a national survey of Dones (Exodus of the Religous Dones) that we’ve been working on. This survey is the first…
Change the Game Plan: Halftime Adjustments for the Church
by Doug Pollock Basketball was my passion growing up. There was something special about being part of a team. We traveled together, practiced together, ate together, and won or lost…
The Dones are a Bridge to the Nones
by Josh Packard In our research for Church Refugees, we revealed that the Dones—those who have left church but retain their faith—were some of the most active church members in…
Institutional Disengagement
by Josh Packard In the past few weeks, everyone has been talking about the recent Pew study that reports a substantially higher number of “Nones” than ever before. The percentage…
Pew Research and the Parable of the Lost Sheep
by Craig Cable The Pew Research Center recently released a demographic study titled America’s Changing Religious Landscape that caused quite a stir in the media and with church-trend watchers. In…
Q’s and A’s About the Dones
by Josh Packard Last month I had the wonderful opportunity to conduct a webinar about my book Church Refugees. The best part was that, both during the webinar and in…
What Makes Me Cry- Church Leaders Need to BE the Church
I admit it. I’m a softie. My heart melts when I hear stories about how God changes someone’s life. When friends tell me stories of Jesus’ love in action, I…
