Spiritual Metrics as a Bulwark Against Secularization

Abstract

One of the problems that Christian relief, development, and advocacy organizations wrestle with is how to ensure that their programs are holistic in terms of integrating the spiritual with the material. This article explores how and why being intentional about including spiritual metrics into our planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation processes holds great promise to enable that integration to be done well, and to guard against the “secularization” of those efforts.