59 Quotes by Rodney Stark

There was only one decline in church attendance, and that was in the late 1960s when the Vatican said it was not a sin to miss Mass. They said Catholics could act like Protestants, and so they did.

A whole lot of Americans have never met a Mormon.

American churches work very hard at reaching out to people to bring them in.

Can anyone seriously imagine a society without stable families? Maybe we should raise all the kids in state orphanages.

Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.

For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

It can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.

Those who belong to megachurches display as high a level of personal commitment as do those who attend small congregations.

Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.