Does Weekly Church Attendance Help Your Mental Health?
Especially if you're a conservative?
Recently, Ryan Burge of Graphs about Religion shared a fascinating chart on the olβTwitter:
There are several different ways to read this chart which have implications on how and why we attend church and our practices in church. I want to go through these possibilities and weigh them with some data points. What I think weβll find is that reality is murky. The reasons conservatives report lower mental health challenges when attending church regularly might not be what you expect. But regardless of our reading of this chart, our reason for attending church should remain the same.
