Is Britain still really a Christian country? And, if not, how can we be good?
According to the research by Peter Brierley, whose second edition of “UK Church Statistics” is due to be published soon, in 2013, there were 5.4 million church members in the UK, a mere 10% of the adult population, taken as 15 and over, 300,000 fewer than five years previously in 2008, when it was 12%. This low proportion is likely to continue to decline at about the same rate for the next 12 years, reaching 9% by 2020 and a mere 8% by 2025, if present trends continue.
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Does this decline in Christian church membership matter? Can one be good if one is not religious? I think so, as I have argued in this short essay.