THE VALLEY PULPIT: Does the Church have a future?

THE VALLEY PULPIT: Does the Church have a future?

Unless, like Rip Van Winkle, you have been sleeping through the last decade or so, you will have noticed that the churches are, generally speaking, in decline. To take an example, Census figures tell us that the United Church of Canada lost about a quarter of its supporters in the last 30 years of the 20th century. Anglicans and Presbyterians are also in decline, if not free fall. In the UK only eight percent of people ever darken the door of a …