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Church attendance used to drive up trust, it doesn’t anymore

September 4, 2023 Anglican Watch 2 comments

The following is by Ryan Burge, reprinted with permission. Anglican Watch believes that Burge implicitly identifies two trends that are fast killing the Episcopal Church: The prevalence of monoculture parishes, resulting in decreased exposure to persons different than us. Conduct within parish family systems that does not engender trust. Note that

Catholic inclusion will kill the Episcopal church

April 14, 2023 Anglican Watch Leave a comment

Catholic inclusion spells the end of the road for the Episcopal church

Inclusion in the Catholic church will be the death knell for the already imploding Episcopal church.

Episcopal church closings — part I

April 9, 2023 Anglican Watch 2 comments

Over the coming weeks, we’re going to take a closer look at the closure of Episcopal churches. We’ll look at this issue from a variety of perspectives, including trends, forecasts, and the implications of church closures. So, one of the first things we’re going to examine is a crude but

Why does ACNA grow, while TEC dies?

January 12, 2023 Anglican Watch 3 comments

The Anglican Church in North America, or ACNA, is not officially part of the Anglican Communion. Yet its success, including membership in 2021 of 122,450, can tell us a great deal about why the Episcopal Church (TEC) is failing. To be clear, even with net growth, some parts of ACNA

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John B Jacob on Easton bishop Santosh Marray further erodes trust at diocesan convention: “Where is the vote of no confidence? The botched convention is the proof in the pudding, even though Marray, true…”

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