Unofficial Watchdog of the Episcopal Church
Shortened version of a piece originally published by David Virtue on VirtueOnline. Dear Brothers and Sisters, If you have not been reading our church and diocesan statistics, you should. The Episcopal Church is rapidly declining at both the national and diocesan level. We have now dipped below 300,000 in average
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As churches struggle to find footing in what we hope are the waning days of the pandemic, Anglican Watch has been rummaging around the mountains of statistical data from the church. And while there are heaps and piles of data in all directions, we see trends that point to some dangerous omissions
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Reposted from 2021. The past 18 months have been rough, but for the Episcopal Church, things are about to get worse. Specifically, the results of the annual parochial reports are about to come out, and they won’t be pretty. And that’s not the worst of it—folks who left the church
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Lifeway Research reports that church attendance across Christian denominations in 2022 returned to 85 percent of pre-pandemic levels. But Anglican Watch’s review of data suggests that Average Sunday Attendance, or ASA, in the Episcopal Church remains much lower, probably about 70 percent churchwide versus pre-pandemic numbers. Per reports from the Office of General
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