Will They Come Back?
An article entitled “Where did the people go?” appeared in the Christian Chronicle of May 2022. It sounded a familiar alarm: declines in church attendance. The article gave this observation: “When it comes to closed churches of Christ, that may be the hardest question...
What Have We Learned?
One doctor sounded a dire alarm before a Congressional Subcommittee: “We could lose one quarter of the world’s population before we gain control of this epidemic, even if we act swiftly now. If not, it may be more.” This physician cited WHO estimates of infections and...
New TBC Press Book on Disease and Church Assembly
Since early 2020, Kerry Duke has had a lot of conversations – conversations with Christians reaching out in fear, frustration and discouragement regarding COVID-19 and church assembly. Those concerns motivated him to write a book, “Church, State and Disease ‒...
Pre-Covid v. Post-Covid: Why the Difference?
We could just shrug our shoulders and say it is a mystery as to why so many congregations are reporting pre-versus-post-pandemic numbers, but is there really a big mystery here? It is a plain fact that congregations are routinely reporting a difference in their...