Religion News Service columnist Jana Riess reports on the good and bad news in the latest LDS Church membership stats.
General Conference on Saturday, April 6, 2024. There are positive and not-so-positive trends in the latest Latter-day Saint membership stats.It’s that time of year again. The April tulips are showing their colorful regalia, Americans are scrambling to finish their taxes and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has just released its
The narrative from some quarters is that everyone is leaving the church and that the denomination will inevitably wither and die in the wake of so many departures. Some seem so committed to this narrative that they ignore or reject any data that doesn’t support it . Can we all just take a step back? I’m going to be blunt. Data about religion doesn’t care about you or whether a new statistic makes you feel “seen.” It also doesn’t care about whether your theological paradigm favors the imminent disaster or preordained flourishing of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Social science looks at patterns for which there are this-world explanations, not at God’s purported design for the success or failure of one particular faith tradition.
That’s the global picture. For the United States in particular, there’s been a slight uptick in the membership growth rate, even compared to the pre-pandemic years. In the U.S., growth had declined to 0.6% in 2018 and 2019, a rate that was repeated in 2022. But, in 2023, it was 0.95%, or just shy of 1%. It hasn’t been that high since 2016, when it was 0.9%.
. Twelve years later, we have a 17.2 million-member church, but only 93,594 children of record. And that was an improvement over the 89,000-ish for
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