Do you ever read a headline that makes you do a double-take? I’ll be honest, when I first saw the headline “Empty Pews are an American Health Crisis,” I thought it was clickbait. And yet, as I dug into the article, I was absolutely shocked with its contents. Two Harvard professors, one a professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and the other the associate director of research of the Human Flourishing Program, have done extensive quantitative research that shows the incredible benefit to our physical health when we regularly attend church.
