Religion and Culture Scholar

David Millard Haskell

1 article 2016

David Millard Haskell is a professor of religion and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. His research focuses on the sociology of religion, particularly factors influencing church growth and decline in mainline Protestant denominations. He contributed an article to The Weekly Standard in 2016 examining the dynamics of church growth.

The Recipe for Church Growth

December 10, 2016 · Protestantism, Canada, Christianity

As a young boy in Canada in the 1970s I often accompanied my grandmother to her neighborhood United Church for Sunday service. The United Church is a Canadian invention. In the 1920s some of the largest and oldest Protestant churches in the country, including all the Methodists and the…