God's spirit is present in the world, said Jason Gattis, the senior pastor at Chattanooga's First-Centenary United Methodist Church. "Part of the kingdom is within heaven, and we experience that ...

This chapter focuses on three groups of U.S. adults, based on their answers to the following four questions: Do you think of yourself as spiritual? Do you think of yourself as religious? How important ...

Some declarations spread because they soothe the human psyche on many levels. They sound smart. The words alone seem to offer both a pithy and a profound insight. They sound superior. They profess a ...

Spiritual formation shouldn’t be an attempt to control ministry outcomes—it’s about cultivating space for God to work. I recently read about a spiritual formation program that went terribly wrong. A ...

Asking about people’s activities, habits and rituals is one way to explore how abstract concepts such as spirituality and religion show up in everyday life. In this survey, we asked respondents to ...