(RNS) — For a small church, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, has a surprising reach. Most church members live in and around Downingtown, a small town about an ...

(RNS) — On average, people attending church in person had a higher heart rate during the service and experienced more transcendence, according to a recent study. (RNS) — Social scientists have long ...

According to a recently published Pew Research Center survey, about a quarter of U.S. adults regularly watch religious services online or on TV, and most of them are highly satisfied with the ...

Churches across the country are doing what they can to connect to parishioners from a distance. Now, some are switching from online back to in-person during this pandemic. "It wasn't easy. It wasn't ...

Last year Pastors Henry Fuhrman and Jerry O’Sullivan of Shelter Rock Church in Nassau County, N.Y., began working as TV preachers. For months they livestreamed sermons as Covid-19 ravaged the leafy ...

After Becky Hope left the evangelical church she had been attending in Portland, Oregon, four years ago, she began watching online services at an ecumenical church in New York City — just for a little ...

"I agree online church is an intriguing idea to include families and individuals affected by disability," I said, leaning back in my chair. "But I don't think it can work." I spoke those words in 2009 ...

There was a huge response to last week’s newsletter, where I argued that churches should phase out their livestream services. I received thousands of emails and other replies online, many of which ...

An 82-year-old Oklahoma woman has charmed the internet with her commitment to wearing her Sunday’s Best even while attending church services from home during the last year. Laverne Wimberly, who once ...