From USAToday (not the friendliest magazine of Biblical Christian values): https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/10/28/religion-church-attendance-mortality-column/92676964 The link doesn’t always work the best on computer and so I am saving a download of the article here: Here are the links from this article to the studies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10462170 http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2521827 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11302358 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12160-016-9813-9 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24115346 https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.87.6.957 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10804-012-9143-5 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/American-Grace/Robert-D-Putnam/9781416566731 Here is link to the Tyler Vanderwheele (the professor behind the findings and article) at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_VanderWeele Also, see prior posts on similar subjects like: P.S. – Learned about this article attending church…LOL! Update: In this 2017 paper by Vanderwheele it is admitted that: “Because most research has involved predominantly US and … Continue reading The research has shown that service attendance, rather than private spirituality or solitary practice, strongly predicts health.