Summary
Churches across the U.S. are grappling with dwindling attendance and financial instability, forcing many to close or sell properties.
The Diocese of Buffalo has shut down 100 parishes since the 2000s and plans to close 70 more. Nationwide, church membership has dropped from 80% in the 1940s to 45% today.
Some churches repurpose their land to survive, like Atlanta’s First United Methodist Church, which is building affordable housing.
Others, like Calcium Church in New York, make cutbacks to stay open. Leaders warn of the long-term risks of declining community and support for churches.
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Heaven isn’t real
In my hometown, we still have over 10.
Hip Hip
There’ll be no Weezer in this thread…
Hooray
Boardroom meme:
Boss: Church attendance is down. What can we do to turn this around?
Person 1: discreetly move pedophile pastors around to hide their proclivities?
Person 2: assure the congregation that we still hate gay people
Person 3: follow the teachings of Christ and show love and charity to our neighbors regardless of who they are
Person 3 is thrown out the stained glass window.
Good riddance. God is dead and we have killed him.
FINALLY! You guys start to get secular state!
We still have to deal with Putin’s “200 churches” bullshit.
45% is considerably higher than I expected. I thought it would be closer to 10-15%.
Pit of vipers closes due to insufficient snakebite volunteers.
“Nobody wants to church anymore!”
Good
quite region dependent, in the rural south they’re still pretty strong, in the rest of the country and in large cities, not so much
And they say there’s no such thing as good news.
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Sad that public spaces are disappearing but relying on funding from the ultra wealthy has been the death knell for christian churches.
Too bad its not baptist.
