Sociologist Bradley Wright teaches at the University of Connecticut. I have mentioned his work on several occasions, including reviews of his two most recent books: Upside: Surprising Good News About the State of Our World (2011 – my review here) and Christians are Hate-Filled Hypocrites . . . and Other Lies You’ve Been Told: A Sociologist Shatters Myths From the Secular and Christian Media (2010 – my review here).
Earlier this month he blogged about two trends to ponder in 2012:
- Declining face-to-face communication events
- Declining marriage rates
So What?
Rather than providing any sense of how best congregations can leverage these shifts, Wright offers questions that warrant significant consideration at all levels of parish leadership:
- As communication becomes less face-to-face, how should the Church respond?
- What does it look like to have sustained church growth without the relatively-stable building blocks of family life?