Moneyball for religion? Your Church Should Rethink Its Numbers

The book-turned-movie “Moneyball” chronicles how the Oakland A’s discovered a revolutionary way of thinking about baseball. Can there be a moneyball for religion? Congregations are often judged by their size, but what does this hide about the way we do religion? Is there a hidden way of doing things that should be measured, asks Tobin Grant of Religion News Service.  (Photo by Andrei Niemimäki, used by Creative Commons license)