Carey Nieuwhof

Hi Reader, What if everything you thought you knew about multisite church was wrong? Or at least misinformed? For years, a lot of leaders assumed multisite was mainly a strategy for megachurches. New research from Warren Bird and Sean Morgan tells a very different story. They identified every verified multisite church in America and surveyed more than 1,000 leaders. What they discovered surprised me and I bet it’ll surprise you too. Churches are going multisite at smaller sizes than you might...

Welcome to the On The Rise newsletter, where I feature fascinating, helpful, and sometimes curious content that caught my attention this week. Today, some fresh data on which college majors are most likely to be atheists, why teams often don’t tell their senior leader the truth, a great inside story about Apple, and it looks like your people are falling deeper into debt. English Majors Much More Likely to be Atheists than Finance Majors Not all atheists are the same. It may be a chicken and...

Hi Reader, For all of human history, death has been final. AI is about to make it feel optional. Last year, an app called 2wai released a promotional video. It opens with a pregnant woman calling an AI version of her late mother for parenting advice. Then it fast-forwards: the AI grandmother reads bedtime stories to her grandchild, and years later gives advice to her adult grandson. All of it was generated from three minutes of video recorded before she died. The video got over 22 million...

Hi Reader, Leadership can get surprisingly lonely. You’re making decisions that affect your staff, your church, your family, and sometimes thousands of people. But when you’re the one everyone else comes to for answers, who do you call when you don’t know what to do? That’s one of the things Annie F. Downs and I unpacked in our latest conversation. Annie has built what she calls a personal “board of directors.” Different people she trusts for different parts of her life. Some are mentors....

Hi Reader, In some recent talks I gave, I asked the audience whether anyone thought people were better off after twenty years of social media. The unanimous answer? Nobody thinks we are. Two decades into the social media experiment, we: are lonelier than ever. have bigger mental health challenges than ever. are more polarized and divided than we've been in our life time. The technology that was supposed to bring us together drove us apart instead. AI is, in my view, only going to make all of...