Experts project an estimated 100,000 churches in the US will close or be repurposed over the next decade.

Many churches will be unable to escape this “tsunami” of closings — a grim trajectory one pastor described as, “Every year the pews are getting emptier and the collection plates getting lighter.”

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[–] 98 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Reading between the lines in the article, it's the more agreeable ones that are closing. Methodists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, to some extent Catholics. The ones that are thriving are your batshit insane Baptist, Evangelical, Pentecostal types. So don't get too excited from the headline, the worst of Christianity will always survive.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    This is exactly what I see in my area

    The ongoing schism in the Episcopal church is also a tragedy.

    Storefront type Baptists are doing just okay, and Catholics have drifted to majority hispanic by now.

    Steel-barn / Christian Rock megachurches are expanding

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