This is what I'd been expecting to see, since the lockdowns. All the casual churchgoers will have discovered they *like* sleeping in on Sundays, and is it worth trying to break the habit now?
A lot of the people who are showing up at my current parish are coming *from* other churches, so one of the things I'm curious about is whether those churches are in turn shrinking... and if there's a trend to which *types* of churches are growing vs. shrinking. If I had to guess (throwing out some irresponsible hypotheses!), I'd say overall numbers of religious-affiliated have probably dropped, and it's likely that more people have stopped going to church than have started... but that the people who've remained, and who've taken up religion or spiritual practice recently, are probably more serious than average about it. So it's interesting to see where those people are, and are not, settling down.
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Re: Religious affiliation since the coof?
Date: 2023-04-27 01:20 am (UTC)A lot of the people who are showing up at my current parish are coming *from* other churches, so one of the things I'm curious about is whether those churches are in turn shrinking... and if there's a trend to which *types* of churches are growing vs. shrinking. If I had to guess (throwing out some irresponsible hypotheses!), I'd say overall numbers of religious-affiliated have probably dropped, and it's likely that more people have stopped going to church than have started... but that the people who've remained, and who've taken up religion or spiritual practice recently, are probably more serious than average about it. So it's interesting to see where those people are, and are not, settling down.