{"id":86927,"date":"2019-11-26T12:20:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T17:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86927"},"modified":"2019-11-26T16:57:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T21:57:37","slug":"gr-terry-mattingly-why-it-matters-that-canadian-anglicans-are-having-a-near-death-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86927","title":{"rendered":"(GR) Terry Mattingly&#8211;Why it matters that Canadian Anglicans are having a near-death experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">When I located a condensed versions of the Elliot report (entire report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Report-to-HoB-2017-stats.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and raw data <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2017-raw-Diocesan-stats.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>) there was another angle to this story that I was stunned was not discussed in the RNS news report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Can you spot the story in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/latest-anglican-church-of-canada-membership-and-attendance-statistics\/\">following bullet list<\/a> that would deserve a large-font headline here in the United States?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">\u2014 The average Sunday attendance has dropped to 97,421.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u2014 A previous report published in 2006 predicted the last Anglican would leave the church in 2061. That number is now 2040.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u2014 The rate of decline is increasing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u2014 New programs adopted by the church have done nothing to reverse the decline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u2014 The Anglican Church of Canada is declining faster than any other Province other than TEC, which has an even greater rate of decline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u2014 The slowest decline is in the number of priests.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">The only other province in the global Anglican Communion that is declining faster than Canada is the \u201cTEC\u201d? Did I read that right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">What, readers may ask, is the \u201cTEC\u201d? Last time I checked, those letters stood for <strong>T<\/strong>he <strong>E<\/strong>piscopal <strong>C<\/strong>hurch here in the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2019\/11\/21\/why-it-matters-that-canadian-anglicans-are-having-a-near-death-experience\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I located a condensed versions of the Elliot report (entire report here and raw data here) there was another angle to this story that I was stunned was not discussed in the RNS news report. Can you spot the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86927\">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":[388,89,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-media","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86927","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=86927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86932,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86927\/revisions\/86932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}