Why is organized religion declining?

From Michigan-

Part of American religiosity is church attendance, which has declined for many denominations and many individual churches within those denominations. I will share some of my own observations about why this is happening.

(1) First of all, denominations such as my own, the Episcopal Church, have done a very poor job of recruiting talented young people to enter into the ministry. Moreover, seminarians usually come out of their training with tens of thousands of dollars in debt. With notoriously low salaries, newly minted clergy face the grim task of trying to pay off this debt. The Episcopal Church has the best-run pension plan among denominations in the United States (and perhaps the best pension plan per se). The pension fund has billions of dollars for a relatively small amount of people who tap into it, yet there is very little financial help for seminarians within the Episcopal Church.

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http://www.grandhaventribune.com/opinion/community-columnist/631746

‘Welcome to Duke’

From The Living Church-

In a YouTube video published Feb. 20, the Bishop of North Carolina interviews the Rev. David Marshall, the new director of the Anglican Episcopal House of Studies at Duke Divinity School. Marshall, who was appointed in November, also is a Duke associate professor of the practice of Christian-Muslim relations. The Rt. Rev. Michael B. Curry interviewed Marshall at the divinity school.

Marshall is an ordained priest in the Church of England, as well as a scholar in the field of Islamic Studies, with a Ph.D. from Birmingham University. In the past seven years he has taught in a variety of settings, including the universities of Edinburgh, Oxford, and Notre Dame in London, and the Cambridge Theological Federation.

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http://www.livingchurch.org/welcome-to-duke