{"id":145266,"date":"2026-05-19T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145266"},"modified":"2026-05-19T18:58:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:58:39","slug":"christian-today-quiet-revival-claims-laid-to-rest-once-and-for-all-as-study-shows-uk-churchgoing-continues-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145266","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) &#8216;Quiet revival&#8217; claims &#8216;laid to rest&#8217; once and for all as study shows UK churchgoing continues to fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ewly released figures from the British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey confirm that church attendance in Britain remains below pre-Covid levels and that there are no signs of a revival among young people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data &#8211; published by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) &#8211; shows that within Britain&#8217;s adult population, only 5% attend a Christian service weekly &#8211; down from 8% in 2018.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only 4% of under 35s attend a Christian service at least once a week &#8211; consistent with figures since 2017 which have ranged from 3% to 5%.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even among those who identify as Christians, only one in eight (13%) say they attend a religious service at least once a week &#8211; well below the 20% recorded in 2018 before the outbreak of Covid and similar to the 12% recorded during the pandemic in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/news\/quiet-revival-claims-laid-to-rest-once-and-for-all-as-new-stats-show-churchgoing-continues-to-fall\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Quiet revival&#39; claims &#39;laid to rest&#39; once and for all as study shows UK churchgoing continues to fall <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jh0sF0Pyg6\">https:\/\/t.co\/Jh0sF0Pyg6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0gQrM0ugpe\">pic.twitter.com\/0gQrM0ugpe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Christian Today (@ChristianToday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristianToday\/status\/2056656272716431376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ewly released figures from the British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey confirm that church attendance in Britain remains below pre-Covid levels and that there are no signs of a revival among young people.&nbsp; The data &#8211; published by the National Centre<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145266\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,108,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145269,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145266\/revisions\/145269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}