Covid in Canada in fall 2023 Anecdotal instances of Covid have been on the increase in my neck of the woods over the last few weeks. Is it time to be concerned? This blog is not the place for an…
Month: <span>October 2023</span>
The United Church of Canada (UCC) has compiled its stats for 2022. They show little negative effect of Covid and even some real bounce back. For those outside of Canada, the UCC is Canada’s most numerous protestant denomination. It was…
David Goodhew has an interesting article on the Covenant web site (here and below) suggesting that TEC’s numbers may fall below those of ACNA in the next 20 years. It is certainly cause for thought about some of the things…
It is the season of “mellow fruitfulness” – harvest – and thus also the season for tithing. At least it was until 1977 in England. Today we will look at the connection between ten – as in the ten commandments…
In an interesting parallel to my developing series on Numbers in the Bible, CBC has a radio/podcast series called “The Greatest Numbers of all time”. It is a secular approach to significant numbers. But even a secular approach cannot avoid…
The Episcopal Church (TEC) has released their annual parochial statistics for 2022. After a brief read three questions came to my mind – and after a more detailed look myself, and reading other commentators, those three questions are still there. …