Canadian Anglicans Face Extinction
By Ian Hunter
National Post
January 13, 2006

Canadian Anglican Bishops will be ruing the day they commissioned Keith McKerracher, a retired marketing executive, to study church growth. No doubt they anticipated the kind of sentimental fantasy that the Bishops usually spin out for parishioners, whether the topic be residential schools, or same-sex "marriage", or whether it was not, perhaps, four or seven wise women, and not three wise men, who first followed a star to the birthplace of Jesus.

Alas, this time the Bishops miscalculated. They reckoned without an honest man. Mr. McKerracher completed his Report and his main finding, made after studying actual parish membership rolls instead of suspect census data, is that the last Canadian Anglican will turn out the lights in the last church sometime around mid-century.

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