Category: LDS Membership Statistics
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Reasons Why Latter-day Saints Leave their Church
In 2019, Mormon blogger Jana Riess wrote a book titled The Next Mormons: How Millennials are Changing the LDS Church (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). While what she presents is not as “layperson” oriented as some of her other tomes – including Flunking Sainthood, What Would Buffy Do? and Mormonism For Dummies – Riess compiles important research…
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Membership Growth in 2020 Down by Almost 50% As Decline Continues
For a 4-part Viewpoint on Mormonism series on this topic airing February 15-18, 2021, click these links: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Note: This article was modified on April 4, 2021 Over the first weekend of April, LDS Church leaders announced their lowest baptismal convert rate number in many decades due…
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Book Review: The Next Mormons: How Millennials are Changing the LDS Church
Authored by Jana Riess Check out the 15 episodes Viewpoint on Mormonism podcast series that aired September 30-October 18, 2019: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12 Part 13 Part 14 Part 15 Jana Riess, 49, is a popular LDS…
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Member Inactivity in the Mormon Church
On Tuesday (23 September 2014) the blog nearing kolob took a look at recent Mormon missionary reports regarding localized Church inactivity. What follows is a summary of nearing kolob’s research findings (that they gleaned unscientifically from reading Mormon missionary blog posts). While this information is likely troubling to LDS leaders, and perhaps encouraging to critics…
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Survey Explains Reasons Why Mormons Leave Fold
Survey explains reasons why Mormons leave fold By Eric Johnson While the Mormon Church is losing members due to a variety of reasons, a survey shows that doctrinal and historical issues cause more defections than anything else.
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Mormonism’s Growth Figures—What Can You Believe?
Screaming front page headline in Wednesday, May 2, 2012’s Salt Lake Tribune (in bold, no less): “Multiplying Mormons expand into new turf” Subhead 1: “2010 census: LDS Church is fastest-growth Christian faith in 30 states, report shows” Subhead 2: “Only Muslims, with 67% jump from 2000-2010, outpaces 45% LDS increase.” Anyone picking up the paper…
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One of the Fastest Growing Churches?
How often have we heard the claim that the growth of Mormonism proves it is a true religion? Honestly, too many times to count. It is insinuated that the LDS Church’s size and success in getting people to join its church are factors that are somehow supposed to lend credibility to the religion’s truthfulness. We…
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LDS Church Reports Growth
The National Council of Churches Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches 2007 edition has just been released, reporting new church membership numbers and growth trends on 224 “national church bodies.” An online press release provides a taste of the information contained in the 439-page Yearbook, including membership and growth statistics for 25 of the largest…
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The Fastest Growing Church in the World?
Does accelerated growth of a group somehow validate that what the group teaches is true? To many Latter-day Saints, the growth (or perceived growth) of their church is evidence that the restored gospel of Mormonism must be true. No one doubts that the LDS Church is a growing church and for this reason alone every…
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Mormon Church Growth & Retention
On July 18th the LDS Church released this to the press: SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the second-fastest growing church in the United States, according to the 2006 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, published by the National Council of Churches. After citing some statistics regarding worldwide…
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LDS Growth Statistics
Last week the Associated Press reported: “The Assemblies of God, the Mormon church and the Roman Catholic Church were the fastest-growing major denominations in the United States last year, according to the just-released 2006 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. “The Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal church, grew 1.81 percent to just under 2.8 million…