Look closely at a broad cross-section of church budgets and a clear trend appears: churches are spending more and more of their money internally, and sending less and less of it out to causes like missions and local benevolence. This has been the direction for a long time. And here is the telling part —…

Calvinism — also called Reformed Theology, and known popularly by its best-known feature, predestination — has been spreading rapidly through Evangelical and Protestant churches, and it is one of the quieter reasons people are leaving them. For many who encounter it, the teaching raises questions they cannot reconcile with the God they thought they knew….

It is a plain and simple fact: within the majority of Evangelical and Protestant churches, men and women are treated differently. Men hold nearly all of the positions of power and leadership. In many denominations, men occupy well over 99 percent of pastoral roles. And even where men and women hold similar paid positions, studies…