Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

• Presbytery and Synod Directory — also provides links to presbytery and synod Web sites.
• Index of PC(USA) Congregations — also provides links to congregational Web sites.
• PresbyTel — the reference desk for the PC(USA): providing answers to questions from members, elders, ministers, and others about the denomination's resources and materials, programs, policies, and conferences and other events. (PresbyTel can also be reached at (800)-872-3283).
• Ideas! for Church Leaders — a new quarterly publication and Web site.
• Presbyterians Today magazine — published for the people of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
• HORIZONS is published by Presbyterian Women for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) — bimonthly as a magazine and annually as a Bible study.
• Daily News for Presbyterians — (registration required)
• Who We Are
• Curriculum Publishing — The official publisher of PC(USA) curriculum.
• History of the PC(USA)
• PC(USA) Book of Confessions
• Creeds and Confessions
• What Does it Mean to Be a Presbyterian?

Other Religion Pages of Interest

• Presbyterian Outlook — The only national independent weekly newsmagazine serving the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
• Net Results — New ideas in church vitality and leadership; Tom Bandy, editor.
• The Alban Institute — Providing courses and resources in these areas: leadership, spirituality, growth and change, conflict management, planning and visioning, and faith and money; founded by Loren Mead.
• The Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches — The best single source of information and statistics on religion in North America.
• Christian Century magazine — "Linking Christian faith and contemporary life."
• Religion-Research.org — Religion and the Internet.

Social Science Research

• Religious Research Association
• Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
• Barna Organization — providing information and analysis regarding cultural trends and the Christian Church.
• Faith Communities Today — a national interfaith survey of congregations conducted in 1999.
• U.S. Congregational Life Survey — The first nationally-representative survey of worshipers in congregations across America.
• Pulpit and Pew — Research on Pastoral Leadership, funded by the Lilly Endowment and conducted by the J.M. Ormond Center at the Divinity School at Duke University.
• Center For the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis.
• The Gallup Organization
• Center for Congregations — a program of the Alban Institute funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.
• Hartford Institute for Religion Research at Hartford Seminary
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut
• The Pew Research Center for The People and The Press
• The Louisville Institute — A Lilly Endowment program for the study of American religion based at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary.
• Association of Religion Data Archives provides access to the highest quality data on American and international religion.
• The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at the Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
• Bureau of the Census — the preeminent collector and provider of data about the people and economy of the United States. In over 100 surveys annually, and 20 censuses a decade, the Census Bureau provides official information about America's people, businesses, industries, and institutions.
• The Statistical Abstract of the United States — This National Data Book contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included.
• Government Information Sharing Project at Oregon State University
• Adherents.com — a growing collection of over 35,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations, references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 3,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, and movements.
• Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan
• Maritz Marketing Research Inc. — Results of their AmeriPoll are available online.
• The U.S. Department of Education
• The Sociological Resource Center
• Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace