When pastors leave congregations, their former churches often face what could be termed a punctuation crisis. Some mark the departure with a period at the end of a sentence — either for the minister or the congregation. Others approach it…
In a recent Atlantic essay titled “The True Cost of the Churchgoing Bust,” columnist Derek Thompson writes that “more Americans today have ‘converted’ out of religion than have converted to all forms of Christianity, Judaism and Islam combined. No faith’s...