A new study found that those who engage in home-centered religious practices on holidays are more likely to report feeling a high sense of meaning and purpose in their lives. | Opinion
Heather Fry, left, Michael Hardin, 10, and Matt Fry, right, excitedly comment on the new 50-foot tall Dazzling Musical Tree as it was lighted to kick-off this year's Holiday at the Arboretum, on Tuesday night, Nov. 09, 2021 at Arboretum in Dallas. This year's holiday tradition hosts Victorian style gazebos that represent each of the 12 days of Christmas, as well as a Christmas Village where families can visit with Santa Claus, shop, eat and drink.
The Wheatley Institute and the Institute for Family Studies conducted an 11-country survey with more than 16,000 respondents that looked closely at family religious practices and matched them with outcomes like life meaning, happiness, relationship quality and emotional closeness. What we discovered is that the kind of things that families might do during religious holidays and festivals, if practiced regularly, are highly correlated to astoundingly positive personal outcomes.
Likewise, individuals who engage in regular patterns of home worship also report significantly higher relationship stability, emotional closeness and sexual satisfaction in their marriages than individuals who only attend church regularly or don’t attend church at all.
A curious aspect of the research was that to achieve the full benefit, participating in religious services was necessary — but not sufficient. The full personal benefits of family religious engagement are experienced by those who actively engage in home-centered practices.
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