Two years of consecuative growth have led to a rebound in Sydney Anglican attendance figures since bottoming out in 2022. Overall growth in attendance of 4.5% between 2023 and 2024 followed a post-Covid bounce back of 11% in 2023 consecutive… Continue Reading
Last year Andrew Turner the director of the Australian Baptist Ministries “Crossover” evangelism group noticed a outstanding stat that he had to look at twice: “I blinked and had to look at the number a second time: 34%! Each year… Continue Reading
Church attendance in Australia has risen each year since Covid reaching 1,305,200 in 2024 according to a new report from NCLS. Church Pulse Check 2021 to 2024 records a bounce back from a low of 1,025,200 in 2021. The data… Continue Reading
Did the Royal Commision into the Institutional Response to the Sexual Abuse of Children, and the postal survey about same sex marriage affect the downturn in Sydney Anglican attendance mapped out in a report cureently the subject of debate in the… Continue Reading
The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) has collapsed, according to David Goodhew, a long-time researcher of Anglican Communion statistics and a visiting fellow of St John’s College, Durham University. “New numbers for the Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) are out,… Continue Reading
An uneven spread of church decline (and some small rises) is revealed in the detailed stats in a report set to be debated at the Sydney Anglican Synod (church parliament) in September. The report reveals a pattern of decreases in… Continue Reading
“As religious attendance goes up, the likelihood of mental illness goes down.” Political Scientist Ryan Burge via Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) It’s bizarre to even type these words, but the COVID-19 pandemic began almost four years ago in the United States.… Continue Reading
The proportion of churches declining rather than growing is now larger than before according to a new analysis conducted by NCLS Research. “It is estimated that 18% of local Protestant churches have experienced a net growth of at least 10%… Continue Reading
Gathered Together, a new book by SMBC lecturer and long-time pastor Karl Deenick is dedicated to the idea that church is where Christians should want to be. Yet with some surveys showing a good chunk of church members are not… Continue Reading
Graham Stanton, a key researcher on youthwork, describes how churches can lower the dropout rate many of us experience. “If the church doesn’t listen, the church can’t understand. When young people realise they aren’t understood, church becomes a place where… Continue Reading