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Nov 01 2021

FACT 2020: How Congregations Have Changed in the Last 20 Years

by Darren Slade, PhD – FaithX Director of Research

The organization, Faith Communities Today, along with 21 other Christian faith traditions, just released the results of the largest national survey of congregational trends in the United States. Spanning two decades of research (from 2000‒2020), the “Twenty Years of Congregational Change” reports findings from interviewing 15,278 congregations among 80 separate denominations and religious groups.

What’s significant about this particular survey is that it tracks multiple levels of change within American congregational life during both the pre- and early COVID era, much of which was predicted by the FaithX Project and its groundbreaking “Religion Singularity” research.

Continue reading to learn about some of the major highlights and results of the survey.

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Written by Darren M. Slade, PhD · Categorized: COVID-19, FaithX Blog, Posts by Darren Slade · Tagged: Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Clergy Deaths, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID19, Denominations, GCRR, Global Center for Religious Research, judicatories, SHERM Journal

Jul 08 2021

Total Christian Clergy Deaths Resulting from COVID-19


by Darren Slade, PhD – FaithX Director of Research

Over the past year, the FaithX Project, in partnership with researchers from the Global Center for Religious Research (GCRR), conducted a study to answer one very important question about clergy deaths:

How many Christian “clergy” members, from all denominations and traditions, died as a result of the COVID-19 virus?

While the study can only provide estimates and statistical probabilities, the research is finally complete and the preliminary numbers are in.

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Written by Darren M. Slade, PhD · Categorized: COVID-19, FaithX Blog, Posts by Darren Slade · Tagged: Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Clergy Deaths, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID19, Denominations, GCRR, Global Center for Religious Research, judicatories, SHERM Journal

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