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Why You’re Probably Not Going to Church this Christmas

WorldAffairs by Mateo Schimpf

Dec 23, 202452:58News & Politics

100,000, that’s the estimated number of Protestant churches that will close in the U.S… not by 2050, but five years from now. What some scholars are calling “The Great De-churching” is already well under way, and the exo...

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Why You’re Probably Not Going to Church this Christmas is an episode from WorldAffairs by Mateo Schimpf. 100,000, that’s the estimated number of Protestant churches that will close in the U.S… not by 2050, but five years from now. What some...

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