Research on Canadian Congregations
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In this video, Dr. Margaret Clarke will discuss preliminary findings from the new study she and Dr. Marcus Tanner conducted investigating clergy and spouses’ ability to bounce back from stressful...
Dr. Ross Lockhart shares highlights from his recent research project studying 14 Christian communities in Vancouver, British Columbia where the major of the city’s population now identifies as having “no...
There is increasing handwringing about the decline of the Canadian Church, but an analysis of our reconciled Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) dataset suggests the story is less bleak and more...
FCI Published Research
Congregations are story-telling communities. The stories they tell, which link a community’s past, present, and...
What attitudes and perceptions regarding mental health, mental illness, and mental health challenges exist in...
Perceived spiritual openness, increased prioritization on evangelism, and greater clarity on the purposes of evangelism...
Where are signs of life in Canadian congregations, and what can we learn from them?...
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I am pleased to give my wholehearted endorsement to the Flourishing Congregations Institute…
As Catholic dioceses and parishes look for ways to engage in the New Evangelization of our society, it will be helpful to use research tools and analysis that would allow us to comprehend the complexity of social structures and behaviour in a pluralistic society. It could assist us to understand better what factors contribute to the flourishing of parishes in their particular contexts.
Donald Bolen
Catholic Archbishop of Regina
