You can find the 2009 numbers here and the 2002 numbers there. Before you click on the link, guess the percentage decline in Average Sunday Attendance for domestic missions and parishes of The Episcopal Church over this time frame–KSH.
You can find the 2009 numbers here and the 2002 numbers there. Before you click on the link, guess the percentage decline in Average Sunday Attendance for domestic missions and parishes of The Episcopal Church over this time frame–KSH.
22 percent.
20%
Those seem a little too high. Is this like the Price is Right? I’ll guess 19.99% to box out Michele.
Robroy wins the lunch with +O’Neil in Denver at the Brown Palace. Correct answer is 19.3 percent. Statmann
Internal data are always interesting to view from the perspective of one denomination, but it would also be interesting to read the TEC data from an outsider’s vantage point. Like that old New Yorker map of the USA from the point of view of NYC residents, many TEC people (present and former) may still have a vestigial view of TEC as bigger than it really is, in comparative terms.
When we study American Religious History, for example, we spend (or used to spend) a disproportionately large amount of time on the Anglican/Episcopal tradition and a small amount of time on traditions, say, of the Southwest or on Pentecostalism or whatever. Of course that is changing.
But, to get to the point: perhaps if someone posted an updated list of the US denominations that are near TEC in ASA, that list would be interesting and maybe even edifying.
The fairly large number of TEC churches in (especially Eastern) cities and of course TEC’s numerical over-representation (statistically speaking) not only in the branches of the national government but also in the upper ranks of the military and the intelligence services convey an impression that needs to be offset by the realities of up-to-date hard data.
Those lists are available in handbooks of US denominations, but I don’t have one handy.
At least the numbers support the Presiding Bishop’s empirical observations: when such a substantial number of people leave a conflict, it often appears to those remaining that the conflict has died down. Unfortunately, a corresponding vitality, money, time, and other resources also left, making the ministry of the remaining group seem to have dissipated as well.
Edifying. It shows once again the truth of what our Lord says… as you sow, so shall you reap. The sad thing is that Mrs S and her friends do not care at in the least that they have hurt countless people, and willfully engaged in the further destruction of a formerly great religious institution.
I would love to know the ASA of people aged between 20 and 30. I would guess it is in the hundreds, max. For this reason alone the church is doomed; brands are chosen when we are young.
What interesting to me is that loss of ASA from 2002 has doubled in 2008 and also 2009. Not a good trend.