What Happens to Your Brain When You Worship?

For most of Christian history, worship was understood as a spiritual discipline — something that shapes the soul, not the synapses. Singing hymns, praying daily, orienting life toward God: these practices were thought to form character, deepen faith, cultivate peace. What nobody expected was that they might also, quite literally, change the structure of the brain.That assumption has quietly collapsed over the past two decades.Advances in neuroimaging have made it possible to watch the brain in r