Coaching: An Essential Ingredient

• March 12, 2022
• Philip Hughes
• Church Life

“No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a...

Does Faith Give You Better Health?

• March 11, 2022
• Philip Hughes
• Care and Wellbeing

A recent book by Rodney Stark, a renowned sociologist of religion in the United States of America, America’s Blessings, argued that...

Pilgrimage

• December 14, 2021
• Philip Hughes
• Religion and values internationally

The theme of the conference of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion held in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium in 2015 was...

Youth Leadership

• November 24, 2021
• Philip Hughes
• Youth culture and ministry

In most organisations, leadership is one of the keys to the successful achievement of the organisation’s goals. This is true in...

Why Young People are Leaving the Church?

• November 24, 2021
• Philip Hughes
• Secularisation

A large proportion of children who grow up attending a church in Australia, United Kingdom or USA drop-out of church attendance....

Is there an Optimum Length of Ministry?

• November 24, 2021
• Philip Hughes
• Church Life

I was once talking with a colleague who mentioned that very often churches experience decline in attendance at worship services during...