One well-known indicator that a church is dying is that, as the end approaches, the remaining members ramp up giving to stave off the inevitable. And so it is in the Episcopal Church, where an ongoing Anglican Watch analysis of parish-level member giving compared to the number of pledging units
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Numbers that matter—on the annual parochial report and missing data
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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