What It Means

A book more than 12 years in the making. In 2012, the first researchers with the Little Rock Congregations Study headed out into our community to learn about what people and places of worship were thinking about religion in relation to that year’s election. In 2024, after surveying more than 4,000 congregants, interviewing nearly 300 … Faith and Community

In 2024, The Little Rock Congregations Study is doing something we have never done before: giving away our surveys to anyone who wants to use them! We want to help places of worship survey their own members about community engagement.  The Little Rock Congregations Study began in 2012 with Dr. Rebecca Glazier and a single … A Free Resource for Congregations to Survey their Members

By Jack Schlotter In research from her new book Faith and Community: How Engagement Strengthens Members, Places of Worship, and Society, Dr. Rebecca Glazier, Professor of Political Science in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Director of the Little Rock Congregations Study, explores the impact that community … Individual Benefits of Community Engagement Explored in New Research

by Jack Schlotter The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Little Rock Congregations Study (LRCS) research team, led by Dr. Rebecca Glazier and Dr. Gerald Driskill, held a “Community Conversations Event” for the team’s latest research project on May 7th, 2023 at the Reynolds Building Atrium at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.  Members … Little Rock Congregations Study Holds Community Conversations Event

For the past two years, the Little Rock Congregations Study, a community-based research project at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been studying race and faith. While our research team has always included some questions about race on our surveys, when we held a Religious Leaders Summit in 2019, we heard from clergy … Race and Faith Resources

This article was originally posted on the personal blog of Dr. Rebecca Glazier, the Director of the Little Rock Congregations Study. It is reposted here with permission: http://www.rebeccaglazier.net/the-line-between-research-and-advocacy/. Last week it was my privilege to present some recent work from the Little Rock Congregations Study at the American Political Science Association Conference, the largest annual … Community-based Research: Part Scholarship and Part Advocacy

Three faculty researchers from the Little Rock Congregations Study (LRCS) have published a new peer-reviewed article. The article, “Faith and race: how African American pastors navigate dialectical tensions in collaboration” was published in the Journal of Applied Communication Research on August 15, 2022. Academic journal content is usually available only to paid subscribers, but there … New Publication: How African American Pastors in Little Rock Navigate Tensions in Collaboration

Our new style manual serves two purposes: one is to introduce team members to the Little Rock Congregations Study (LRCS) project, and two is to set a consistent standard for all documents, including blog and social media posts. This guide is here to help LRCS team members get started, while providing guidelines for consistency in … Welcome to our new Style Manual: Members of the LRCS team now have a style guide to help with creating content

By Amanda Cady, Layne Coleman, David Lewis, Oluwaseun Olaniyi, Essence Thomas, and Rebecca Glazier Throughout February, a team of students from the Clinton School of Public Service worked with researchers from the Little Rock Congregations Study at UA Little Rock to host three community dialogues. The topics of these dialogues were selected based on data … Summary of the Little Rock Congregations Study 2021 Dialogue Series Now Available

This spring, the Little Rock Congregations Study is working with a Practicum team of graduate students from the Clinton School of Public Service to host a series of facilitated dialogues on community issues. The topics of these dialogues were selected based on the results of the 2020 Little Rock Congregations Study Survey, conducted in 35 … LRCS Partners with the Clinton School on Community Dialogues