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…
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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. …
How many online views equal one real person in Church? What formula should we use to equate Facebook, YouTube and Zoom hits? In this blog I want to take some time to consider the metrics available for online services and…
2022 was a significant year for online services in the ACC. As we moved out of the Covid pandemic, dioceses and parishes had to make the decision whether to keep on with their online services or to drop them. In…
Everything you need to know about Church statistics Without falling asleep! The link below is to a small brochure I created a few years ago. It addresses some of the issues and misconceptions around church statistics. It was written before…
Statistics and Research officer for the Anglican Church of Canada since 2016. Retired priest and regional dean serving the Church for 27 years in Derby and Birmingham, UK and Trail, BC, Canada. PhD in sociology of religion with a thesis…
Last week the Times of London published a survey of Anglican clergy’s opinion on a range of matters*. The survey was itself controversial in terms of its design and the respondents, leading to some commentators questioning the whole validity of…
I feel an explanation is in order……. and this is the time and place to do so For many of those who read this blog, the reason that you do so will be rooted in a report I gave…
Below is my report to General Synod in Late June 2023. Many of you will have seen this report at GS – albeit in the middle of a very big document. Others may not have seen it. The data was…
Two types of doughnut Tim Hortons fans will disagree with me on this, but there are essentially two kinds of doughnuts. I will call them American donuts and English doughnuts. American donuts are ring donuts – a big fat…