Anglican Church facing the threat of extinction

The Globe and Mail ^ | 02/10/2010 | Michael Valpy

[mkleesma]

The Anglican Church in Canada – once as powerful in the nation's secular life as it was in its soul – may be only a generation away from extinction, says a just-published assessment of the church's future.

The report, prepared for the Anglican Diocese of British Columbia, calls Canada a post-Christian society in which Anglicanism is declining faster than any other denomination. It says the church has been “moved to the far margins of public life.”

According to the report, the diocese – “like most across Canada” – is in crisis. The report repeats, without qualification or question, the results of a controversial study presented to Anglican bishops five years ago that said that at the present rate of decline – a loss of 13,000 members per year – only one Anglican would be left in Canada by 2061.

[mkleesma]

Gee, what a surprise...

[PGR88]

Trying to be relevant to Gays, Feminists and political correctness, and this is the result. If people of faith wanted that, they could pick up the local newspaper or turn on the TV and internet and be flooded by it.

Everytime I hear about this, I think of Romans 12:2

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”

[Steamburg]

Liberals killed the Anglican Church years ago, it just didn’t get enough sun to allow people to discern the true nature of the parasites. Remember, it’s cold up there. It takes a while for a rotting carcass to stink.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Maybe they people are saying the want no part promoting the Gay lifestyle by open toleration. I notice the article does not mention that.

[achilles2000]

Maybe they people are saying the want no part promoting the Gay lifestyle by open toleration. I notice the article does not mention that.

That would never occur to writers in the MSM...

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

Seems to me the Anglican Church chose irrelevance some time ago by not standing on principle and truth.

So what difference does it make one more useless liberal organization goes completely extinct?

[Anti-Bubba182]

If they did mention it, they could find themselves before a “Human rights tribunal”.

[Fred Hayek]

Calling it a post-Christian society because the Anglican Church is imploding is a bit of a stretch, since such a statement ignores the reason why the Anglican Church is imploding. The Anglican Church has itself become “post-Christian” (or should I really say it? Apostate? There are a few congregations that are remaining faithful to the Word, and some of those are looking to break away.)

[ThePatriotsFlag]

... it is extinct.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

That’s a good verse.

[GAB-1955]

I did not leave the Episcopalian church. It left me! I fled to Ausgburg and am a happy Lutheran now. The LCMS holds to Biblical truth.

[iowamark]

It points out that just half a century ago, 40 per cent of Vancouver Island's population was Anglican; now the figure is 1.2 per cent. Nationally, between 1961 and 2001, the church lost 53 per cent of its membership, declining to 642,000 from 1.36 million. Between 1991 and 2001 alone, it declined by 20 per cent.

Regular attendance is declining at all Canadian Christian churches, except for the Roman Catholic Church, whose small increase is attributed to immigration.

[Seruzawa]

And this is bad because......

[jmaroneps37]

Maybe making up your doctrine as you go along has something to do with what is happening.

[Nosterrex]

A church that marries the culture will soon be a widow.