Religious attendance is linked to a variety of elements of human flourishing, such as pleasure and satisfaction with life, mental as well as among other things, good physical health, a sense of direction or sense of meaning, morality or virtue, and solid social ties. Rigid longitudinal research designs through strong confounding control now provide evidence for the benefits of religious groups on these flourishing characteristics. Compared to the relationships between spirituality and individual practices, the linkages between group religious engagement and flourishing are much stronger.