In case you hadn't noticed, I get a kick out of stats and graphs. Chart of Mainline Church Membership Decline is a resource at the Institute for Religion and Democracy, posted last week. Along with a nifty chart and stats are links to recent articles dealing with mainline decline.
Chart of Mainline Church Membership Decline
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5 responses to “Chart of Mainline Church Membership Decline”
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You do seem to have a thing for stats . . .
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It makes you wonder how much longer the self-described mainline denominations can lay claim to that description…
As someone of a scientific bent, I often laughed at the following joke:
anecdote (noun) 1. a short, usually humorous story; 2. data to sociologists.
I humbly recognize the error of my ways. -
Acutally, a sociologist is someone who takes what you already know, puts into seven syllable words, and the charges you money to read it. **grin**
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The one that I had to admit was true was the practice of cannibalizing words that are commonly used and giving them different meanings.
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A retired professor of engineering told me once that “statistics is the art of drawing a methematically precise line between an unwarranted assumption and a foregone conclusion.”
Of course, a picture is worth a thousand words, and the graphs of denominational growth and decline speak volumes. Is anyone listening in Louisville?
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