Really? I think more likely none or three but nevermind. I am drawn to this article mainly because I think the last line below may not be correct:
According to the report, the diocese – “like most across Canada” – is in crisis. The report repeats, without qualification or question, the results of a controversial study presented to Anglican bishops five years ago that said that at the present rate of decline – a loss of 13,000 members per year – only one Anglican would be left in Canada by 2061. It points out that just half a century ago, 40 per cent of Vancouver Island's population was Anglican; now the figure is 1.2 per cent. Nationally, between 1961 and 2001, the church lost 53 per cent of its membership, declining to 642,000 from 1.36 million. Between 1991 and 2001 alone, it declined by 20 per cent. Regular attendance is declining at all Canadian Christian churches, except for the Roman Catholic Church, whose small increase is attributed to immigration.
To quote the carol, do you see what I see? Is it correct that there is a decline in evangelical churches, too? I often wonder at the use of "mainstream" when it comes to churchy discussions and I am thinking it is actually at implicit play here. Our place of worship is booming but with shifts in housing demographics - fewer young families where the chruches were built a hundred years ago - pews are empty. What to do? Maybe what they do in Arkansas or England.
