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College Educated 20-Somethings
While it is widely known that more young people are attending and graduating from college than ever before in the United States, many people are less familiar with just how dramatic the change is for...
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Education & Low Wage Work
It is a widely held assumption that higher levels of education are associated with higher paying jobs. This data has long been used to argue for the vale of higher education. A new study by the...
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Marketing Adult Ministries
Last week the fourth annual Naples United Church of Christ Adult Enrichment brochure was published. While this booklet is shared with around 1,000 households by old fashioned postal mail in a single...
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Education Level & Declining Church Attendance
As I read W. Bradford Wilcox’s recent Acts of Faith article in the Washington Post I found myself drawn to a graph illustrating a decline in church attendance. While the decline in American church...
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Growing Seminaries
Nearly every regular reader of this blog is well aware that American Christianity has been in decline for many years. Given this reality one would expect that seminary enrollment would also be...
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Leaving Parish Ministry
For the last fifteen years I have served in a variety of parish based ministry positions in Mainline Protestant congregations ranging in size from a few hundred to a few thousand. My job titles have...
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The Least Educated Americans: Christians
A few weeks ago the Pew Research Center published a detailed chart showing a nation by nation breakdown of the educational attainment of those identified with select world religions. United States In...
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Will Mainline Protestantism Disappear by 2039?
A week rarely passes when one or more of my colleagues doesn’t share with me some new bit of news about the poor health of American Christianity. Some of these pieces are based on nothing more than...
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What Students Think of Me
A few weeks ago I shared some reflections on my life as an adjunct professor. Since writing that post, I’ve spent some time looking back over the last eight years. Student Evaluations In higher...
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Top 20 Experiences of the 2010s
The decade of the 2010s will end in just a few days. To celebrate my lived experiences this decade, I created a list of my Top 20 Experiences of the 2010s. Rather than present a single lengthy list of...
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