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Bible Sales Increase Amidst Mixed Church Data

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Recent data regarding church attendance appears to be at odds with findings from other statisticians and surveys. The Bible Society has used the data to argue that the secularization thesis has been disproven.

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Sources · 7 independent

BBC Radio 4

“it very quickly became clear that this is not just an unusual result, but this is a completely at odds with what other statisticians, other surveys were saying.”

BBC Radio 4

“It's not a survey, they literally ask each vicar to count who comes to church over the month of October.”

BBC Radio 4

“a small increase since Covid by about 1%, but not even close to the 56% increase that the Quiet Revival was suggesting.”

BBC Radio 4

“They didn't show rises of anything like the Order of the Quiet Revival report suggested they would. And other well-respected academic experts started weighing in on both sides of the Atlantic saying, you've got to think again.”

BBC Radio 4

“when you saw the initial Bible Society data and the report the quiet revival, did it chime with your experience?”

BBC Radio 4

“we have been seeing a marked just gentle increase of people coming through. But I was suddenly hearing from friends in perhaps bigger churches, different cities where there's perhaps not as much selection of churches in those places.”

BBC Radio 4

“the numbers that were painted by the you go survey You thought all that sounds realistic. Well, I mean our numbers probably have gone up, you know by tens of percent”

BBC Radio 4

“Bible sales have increased by about 125%. There's lots of other data points that show it's kind of flat or declining.”

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