The Pew study on (almost) why people choose which congregation to attend

The Pew study on (almost) why people choose which congregation to attend

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Michael Sean Winters  |  Aug. 31, 2016

Pew studies can sometimes leave me cold. They always demonstrate the large, tectonic shifts in the behavior of those surveyed, and sometimes in attitudes as well. But, oftentimes, they claim to demonstrate the “why” of a given topic but, when reading the results, I never feel like I would be in a position to advise anyone on how to proceed. Their latest survey on why people select a particular congregation when they change is the latest example of this.