{"id":51133,"date":"2015-08-09T22:15:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T22:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cgm_a_look_at_the_attendance_and_membership_data_of_four_western_churches_a\/"},"modified":"2015-08-09T22:15:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T22:15:56","slug":"cgm_a_look_at_the_attendance_and_membership_data_of_four_western_churches_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51133","title":{"rendered":"(CGM) (II) Anglican Church Decline in the West \u201d\u201c Possible Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was clear that all four denominations were declining, but that in Wales, Scotland and the USA the Anglican churches were declining much faster than the Church of England. Both the C in W and the SEC had potential extinction dates about 2040, with ECUSA possibly lasting 10-15 years longer. Indeed, although the Church of England is declining, it is only on the margins of extinction if the current pattern remains, thus unlikely to face extinction this century.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than just repeat the standard reasons given for church decline, in the light of the contrasts in decline patterns, I would rather look at a different question: What does the Church of England have, that the other three denominations do not, that may have helped reduce the effects of numerical decline?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some suggestions, not exhaustive, and some may be a bit controversial&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/churchgrowthmodelling.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/08\/anglican-church-decline-in-west.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was clear that all four denominations were declining, but that in Wales, Scotland and the USA the Anglican churches were declining much faster than the Church of England. Both the C in W and the SEC had potential extinction<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51133\">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":[36,48,73,388,74,389,405,66,184,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-analysis","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-church-of-wales","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51133","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=51133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}