From The Daily Mail-Finding hope amid despair, a flicker of light in the blackest tunnel, is a key Christian virtue. Even so, for us proud Anglicans yesterday’s news about the latest churchgoing habits was pretty bleak.
The British Social Attitudes survey found the number of people who belong to a religion has for the first time dropped below half of the population.
Only 47 per cent of us now align ourselves with an organised religion and only 15 per cent say we follow the Church of England. Fifteen per cent!
As the U.S. novelist Raymond Chandler nearly said, it’s enough to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. If only they would.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-4856284/What-point-Archbishop-Welby.html#ixzz4rtiLHZvn
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