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<blockquote data-quote="OzSpen" data-source="post: 65520226" data-attributes="member: 127638"><p>For heaven's sake, this is only a grab of a few highlights from a <a href="http://www.churchnewspaper.com/26119/archives" target="_blank">church newspaper</a>. If you want to find more complete details of the research at Durham University, I'll leave it to you to search out the research document. But this newspaper source does state that:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">An international team of leading researchers, based at Cranmer Hall, Durham, have just published a study entitled <em>Church Growth in Britain from 1980 to the Present</em>. Here are just a few of the extraordinary statistics that have been unearthed:</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>So this is not research by some Mickey Mouse researchers trying to demonstrate something that is not there. I'm not here to defend what they found. That's for other researchers to critique. I'm simply reporting what I found in a newspaper that provided some drop down examples of what was found:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Where you look affects what you find. The real picture for the last 30 years looks something like this: - Roughly the same number of churches have closed as have opened</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> - Some denominations have seen serious decline notably the mainline denominations Anglican, Methodist, URC, Catholic</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> - Some churches have seen major growth; especially churches rooted in ethnic minority communities and newer denominations</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> - Some <em>parts</em> of the mainline churches are seeing growth Anglican growth centres on the Diocese of London (the one Anglican diocese which has consistently grown over the last 20 years) and new Anglican churches/fresh expressions.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>This research that was released at about the same time as a newspaper report of <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10790495/Former-archbishop-of-Canterbury-We-are-a-post-Christian-nation.html?fb" target="_blank">Rowan Williams' statement</a>, 'Former archbishop of Canterbury [Lord Rowan Williams] says Britain is no longer a nation of believers, as Telegraph poll reveals Christians are reluctant to express their faith', shows that some churches saw major growth while mainline churches showed serious decline. Overall, there is another picture to provide a divergent view to that of Rowan Williams.</p><p></p><p></p><p> Oz</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OzSpen, post: 65520226, member: 127638"] For heaven's sake, this is only a grab of a few highlights from a [URL="http://www.churchnewspaper.com/26119/archives"]church newspaper[/URL]. If you want to find more complete details of the research at Durham University, I'll leave it to you to search out the research document. But this newspaper source does state that: [INDENT]An international team of leading researchers, based at Cranmer Hall, Durham, have just published a study entitled [I]Church Growth in Britain from 1980 to the Present[/I]. Here are just a few of the extraordinary statistics that have been unearthed: [/INDENT] So this is not research by some Mickey Mouse researchers trying to demonstrate something that is not there. I'm not here to defend what they found. That's for other researchers to critique. I'm simply reporting what I found in a newspaper that provided some drop down examples of what was found: [INDENT]Where you look affects what you find. The real picture for the last 30 years looks something like this: - Roughly the same number of churches have closed as have opened - Some denominations have seen serious decline notably the mainline denominations Anglican, Methodist, URC, Catholic - Some churches have seen major growth; especially churches rooted in ethnic minority communities and newer denominations - Some [I]parts[/I] of the mainline churches are seeing growth Anglican growth centres on the Diocese of London (the one Anglican diocese which has consistently grown over the last 20 years) and new Anglican churches/fresh expressions. [/INDENT] This research that was released at about the same time as a newspaper report of [URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10790495/Former-archbishop-of-Canterbury-We-are-a-post-Christian-nation.html?fb"]Rowan Williams' statement[/URL], 'Former archbishop of Canterbury [Lord Rowan Williams] says Britain is no longer a nation of believers, as Telegraph poll reveals Christians are reluctant to express their faith', shows that some churches saw major growth while mainline churches showed serious decline. Overall, there is another picture to provide a divergent view to that of Rowan Williams. Oz [/QUOTE]
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