UK Church Attendance Shows Generational Decline
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Sources · 7 independent
“among young men, their church attendants had allegedly quintupled from 4% to 21%. So they were suggesting more than one in five young men were going to church at least once a month.”
“we've reversed the trend, you know, that what we've, the assumption had been that church attendance and Christianity was going to carry on declining, but we've proved that's not the case.”
“10% of churches in this country are growing. 50% are shrinking and about 40% are staying the same. ... there has been some growth since COVID, though not back to pre COVID levels”
“generational decline with older, more religious, typically more Christian people being replaced in the population by generally less religious, but also some non-Christian people.”
“So we're up around the 80 percent mark. No religion has been in the 2021 census. So then if we go back to the census of 2021 for England and Wales, from that, how do you think people are defining what Christian is?”
“Belief and practice is absolutely a minority pursuit now in religious terms in this country. Identity is still a bit higher, but you're right.”
“on all these measures, belief, practice, religious identity, cultural identity, most people in this country are not Christian”
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