The UK Does It Better

First, they launch the wonderfully refreshing atheist bus campaign, and now the Anglican church is falling apart. In an article published in the Sunday Telegraph last month, a Church of England bishop predicts that the Anglican Church will "cease to exist within a generation." If that's not good news, then I don't know what is. "If decline continues, Christian Research has estimated that in five years' time church closures will accelerate from their present rate of 30 a year to 200 a year as dwindling congregations find the cost of keeping them open too great." Not only is the church losing older members, but the pool of potential church-goers is also dwindling. "Out of every 1,000 live births in England in 2006/7 only 128 were baptised as Anglicans." In the early 1900's, by contrast, 609 out of every 1,000 were baptized. I am highly skeptical of such good news, but I'm hopeful. If only American Christian's follow suit...