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How to: unearth trends in France
As promised, here is the analysis of France. This European nation is significantly different from Afghanistan, and holds many opportunities for the Gospel despite our common perception of France as a Godless nation.
Jesus in China
PBS’s Frontline will be doing a show called “Jesus In China”
next week, around June 24 and 25. The show will focus on the growth of
the Christian Church in China.
You can presently see what time/station it will be on in your area. The church in China is
growing faster than in any other country, in any [...]
Uncovering trends in Afghanistan
I wrote yesterday about how to calculate growth trends. Our topic today is how to interpret growth trends for a country. Remember the four variables of growth:
* Natural - births minus deaths plus immigrants minus emigrants.
* Conversion - converts to a religion minus defectors
* Total - Natural plus Conversion
* Growth Rate - how fast a [...]
Tom Sine’s Four Streams
Tom Sine defines four new streams of Christianity “with an Anabaptist accent”: emerging, missional, mosaic and monastic. Missional “is little more than buzz” at the present. However, what interested me was the description of the new monastics who have little interest in church planting yet are moving into cities all over the world, living in [...]
How to: Uncover trends in numbers
You can use a few pieces of data and a few math formulas to uncover some amazing trends. I will illustrate this with several posts on global trends. I will show you to do the same thing for any part of the world: a region, nation, people group or country.
Start with the population at two [...]
The Russians are coming
Despite the sexist photo on the front page (sorry, folks), this article from the International Herald Tribune is an excellent analysis of the burgeoning Russian economy and its results: Russian tourism. Time to start thinking about mobilizing Russian businessmen for BAM and tentmaking, as well as long-term Russian cross-cultural church planting missionaries.
More on SBC changes
Steve Addison has two graphs up which are quite revealing. The first shows the growth of SBC membership over time, but note the slowing in growth from 1995 to 2005. This means Baptists are still growing but not as fast as before. Look at the second chart carefully: its not charting declines in membership but [...]
Canadian Anglican row over same-sex unions
Five clergy broke away from the Anglican Church of Canada over theological disagreements including the blessing of same-sex unions. The Church said the five would be considered “trespassing” if they were on the property of their parishes. The clergy insisted they intended to remain in their churches with the support of their congregations. Should be [...]
Baptists could fall to half by 2030
Page, who ends his second annual term as SBC president this week, has predicted that the number of Southern Baptist churches will fall by half by 2030 unless the denomination makes major changes. Amid the falling numbers, Page cautioned Southern Baptists against pointing fingers. What would the decline in membership do the annual Lottie Moon [...]
Religion in Europe
The Jewish Post has an in-depth analysis of the past, present and future of Jews in Europe. Interestingly it notes a revival of all faiths in Europe (notably Orthodox and Muslims), increasing “sensitivity to faith groups,” and the fact that Islam is the second largest group in Europe (15 to 20 million) and set to [...]
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