Mixed feelings over Church of England's ageing congregations

Will ageing congregations be the death of the Church of England? Some in its midst fear the answer to that question is yes.

Andreas Whittam Smith, the overseer of the Church’s investment fund, told General Synod yesterday that the Church was facing a “crisis” with its ageing demographic.

He likened the Church of England to large companies that “perfectly and impeccably manage themselves into failure”.

He suggested that not all Anglicans were fully aware of the scale of the crisis facing the Church.

“One of our problems is may be that decline is so slow and imperceptible that we don’t relly see it coming clearly enough.”

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