CYNTHIA WOOLEVER is research director of the U.S. Congregational Life Survey, coeditor
of The Parish Paper with Herb Miller and Lyle Schaller, and formerly a professor
of sociology of religious organizations at the Hartford Institute for Religion Research,
Hartford Seminary. As a sociologist and consultant, she has focused on applied
organizational research, working with congregations, judicatories, and seminaries
throughout her twenty-five–year career.