Personal Bible Reading

A large study in the United Kingdom asked ministers how many people read the Bible in their church personally outside of church attendance.Read more…

The Rise (and Fall?) of HIV

An estimated thirty-eight million adults and children are infected with HIV/AIDS today; twenty million have died from the disease so far. By 2050, some 297 million people the equivalent of the entire United States population will have perished. Any plan to reach the unreached must grapple with AIDS.Read more…

The Changing Pattern of Marriage

Marriages, whether in church or a Registry Office, were not counted in the United Kingdom before 1837. In the nineteenth century, the majority of weddings took place in Anglican churches.Read more…

World Christian Trends 2005

The starting point for a clear assessment of where the church is in the world is to make sense of the enormous amount of information collected by churches every year.Read more…

The U.K. Church in 2020: If Trends Continue

On Sunday May 8th, all 38,000 churches in England were invited to complete a form regarding both the number of people in church that day and the number attending in an average week. The results of this census are not due until September 2006 and we do not know if the results will show any changes in the general decline of church attendance.Read more…

Christianity in Global Context

Note: The tables and maps in this article are in Adobe PDF format. To download a free Adobe PDF Reader, please go to http://www.adobe.com/) Over the past 100 years global Christianity has experienced a profound southern shift in its geographicalRead more…