The ‘Quiet Revival’: How Gen Z Is Reversing the Church Decline in the UK

The ‘Quiet Revival’: How Gen Z Is Reversing the Church Decline in the UK

For decades, the story of Christianity in the United Kingdom followed a predictable arc—declining church attendance, rising secularism and increasingly empty pews. The 2021 census confirmed a historic shift, with fewer than half of people in England and Wales identifying as Christian for the first time. But new data from the Bible Society challenges the assumption that Christianity is on an irreversible downward slope. According to The Quiet Rev…

Church attendance ‘moving closer’ to pre-pandemic numbers, early figures for 2024 suggest

IN-PERSON church attendance has yet to reach pre-pandemic levels, but figures are “moving closer”, preliminary figures for 2024 from the Church of England suggest. Statistics in the 2024 preliminary snapshot report, published on Friday, suggest th...

Churches See Attendance Rebound and Volunteering Surge

Church attendance in the United States is seeing a notable rebound, with an estimated 32 percent of adults attending in early 2025. This church attendance surge reverses a long-standing decline, as numbers had dropped from 48 percent in 2009 to just 28 percent last year, according to recent research. The upward trend is especially visible in new studies, which also highlight a volunteering surge revitalizing church communities according to the l…