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Anglicans are wrestling with 'climate change' in their pews: Will they adapt and survive? — GetReligion

GetReligion · Terry Mattingly · last updated
Neil Elliot of the Anglican Church of Canada discovered, this term also applies to religious leaders. “I think of it very much like … people’s responses to climate change,” said Elliot, updating his earlier remarks in a video posted by Global News in Canada. … That’s what I’m trying to get us to do within the Anglican church. Official reports in 2018 showed 388,363 members, with 120,986 regularly attending services. Average Sunday attendance in 2020 — a year that included some pandemic numbers — fell to 458,179, down from 518,411 a year earlier.