Are empty pews a public health crisis?

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 th…