http://www.whychurch.org.uk/gendergap.php
In light of your podcast with @bethany when I stumbled on this I thought of you
This is pretty distressing reading and very blunt - "Men will be absent from church by 2028 at the current rate" and the departure of men is, according to statistics anyway, "speeding up"
It states Mentioned that men are increasingly not applying to be priests/vicars/ministers etc
Church attendance in the UK has dropped by 50% since 1950, and "has become a place by women for women"
Also, that two thirds of the UK Christian populations do not attend a church.........
Those few quotes made me re-read them several times!
@Berrybunchfamily @sinbach wow, this is super sad
@bethany @sinbach yep...some of those quotes are really upsetting
Especially that 2/3 of british Christians don't attend a church... We're currently part of that 2/3 while we continue to get past, well, lets just call them 'troubles
My passion has historically been to reach the lost in church...maybe I need to start thinking about the 2/3...especially since we're part of those numbers
@Berrybunchfamily @bethany I spend a lot of time in Swedish Lutheran churches these days and the majority of priests is now female and the percentage continues to grow. At the same the number of overall attendance in the Swedish Lutheran church continues to plummet. An argument can be made that the two are not connected, but not a convincing one.
@sinbach @Berrybunchfamily I wonder what the cause and effect situation is there? Are there more women priests ("priestesses"? I don't know, that sounds weird) because there are less men in the church, or are there less men in the church because there are more female priests?
