MOUNT VERNON, Ill. (RNS) — Ryan Burge, pastor and sociologist, has documented church decline for years. This Sunday, after 150 years, his own church held its final service.

These small towns have so much history packed in, from pioneer wagon ruts to atomic revelations, that you might forget about big metropolises altogether.

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People from small towns know these places aren’t perfect — we have lived in them long enough to know. But there seems to be a misguided practice in American political journalism of making a ...

These American towns are home to strange things and eccentric history, from the largest ball of twine to a mashed potato wrestling contest.

A beloved small-town priest was gunned down at a Catholic church in Kansas Thursday afternoon by an unhinged Oklahoma gunman — just steps from where young students were playing outside the ...

Late in the 19th-century, three figures converged in Northern Virginia, leading to the creation of one of McLean’s first African American churches. Cyrus Carter was a local pastor whose goal was ...

Small-town values speak to young Americans An accelerating trend of leaving large cities points to new possibilities for strengthening community and connection – and reinvigorating local economies.

News Idaho This small North Idaho town kept to itself. Then a Christian nationalist church asked the U.S. government to intervene May 25, 2025 Updated Wed., May 28, 2025 at 1:36 p.m.