World Christian Database

World Christian Database (Center for the Study of Global Christianity)

The new World Christian Database is now live! The WCD has been totally redesigned into a powerful interactive data visualization tool. Complete with interactive maps, charts, and graphs, this new interface enables easy access for students, scholars, researchers, and journalists to obtain the most up-to-date information on every religion in the world and Christianity at the denominational level, plus information on peoples, languages, cities, and socio-economic indicators.

https://www.worldchristiandatabase.org/

>2 brone:

According to its website, the World Christian Database is produced by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity, which is based out of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, which according to its website is a US (not British) interdenominational (not Anglican) institution with students representing 85 denominations and 50 countries, with campuses in three of your US states. Apart from that I know nothing about it except that the database provdes some interesting statistics which are useful from time to time. No obvious connections with British Anglicanism.

And just for the record, I am a Catholic, not an Anglican.

For some reason I'm reminded of the scripture reading from last Friday's morning prayer of the breviary, Ephesians 4:29-32.

No foul word should ever cross your lips; let your words be for the improvement of others, as occasion offers, and do good to your listeners; do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God who has marked you with his seal, ready for the day when we shall be set free. Any bitterness or bad temper or anger or shouting or abuse must be far removed from you -- as must every kind of malice. Be generous to one another, sympathetic, forgiving each other as readily as God forgave you in Christ.

>4 John5918:

I don't know what you mean by gaslighting, but that's quite a judgement to make against St Paul and the Church Tradition which chose that part of his letter to the Ephesians for the breviary last Friday.

>8 NothingOutThereForMe: I agree.

"It's especially hard for us First World white, privileged, educated, entitled North Americans to understand {Jesus} because everything he does goes against our complicity and participation in our own dominant social order. But it's not hard for the world's poorest, oppressed, marginalized, disenfranchised, and imprisoned people to appreciate him. For them, he makes perfect sense..."

Fr John Dear, The Gospel of Peace, p193

Dear ole Johnny Deer is he still around? I thought he was up in the High Desert roasting nuts with Rohr singing old hippie folk songs. I can picture Johnny sitting around the campfire with his old heros, Che Guevera, Danny Otega, Jannie Fonda, Buddha, Zen, and the false gods brought to him by Tom Merton, I don't think any of the ole lefty liberation Jesuits are there cuz Johnny gut his backside kicked out of that order and he was not even accused of a sex crime to boot. St Johnny Deer was born in a small southern town dependent on Gov contracts and the largest Coast Guard base in America. The town is 54% African American, 40% "1st world white, privileged, educated, entited North Americans who Johnny claims don't understand { Jesus }. This town has three High schools and one university, Johnny and the Non-Catholic Reporter he wrote for and still fawns over him. Would they have us believe that all these institutions and Gov jobs are all taken by fancy pale faces. Johnny is out helping all the marginalized, disenfranchised and imprisoned felons like himself. I am happy that my staunch catholic friend can still find a boomer priest who has been kicked out of the Jesuits but Like Rupnick can still travel the world signing books which other aging hippie progressives can pass around the ole campfire, kumbayah....JMJ....

>11 brone:

I think that's argumentum ad hominem. My post is not about Fr John Dear. The main point is in those last two sentences, beginning "But it's not hard". Given that Christianity is expanding and vibrant in Africa, Asia and Latin America far more than it is in the Global North, the evidence suggests that that statement is correct.

PS: I can thoroughly recommend his book The Gospel of Peace: A Commentary on Matthew, Mark, and Luke from the Perspective of Nonviolence.

My good friend the stauch catholic often mentions the demise of the Global North (oxymoron) with regards to its decline especially religious he refuses to believe in the conservative movement in the American Church recently seen by the thousands of Catholics in procession with the Bessed Sacrament which the MSM throughly ignored. In the 40's as is today it is cool for progressives to wear the globalism patch on their sleeves or stoles. These secular as well as religious globalists he loves and appeases their aim for a world government that will be given the power of life and death over the "global citizen" lets not forget these global elites which Bergoglio frequently has in the Vatican keep harping on the need to "cull the population" of the earth. Already making abortion, contrception, euthanasia a health care right. This new form of eugenics is very much the vogue with the Davos elite and I dare say the velvet mafia. Get rid of the useless eaters thats you and me if we disagree with them....AMDG....

>12 John5918:

Kenyan Bishops Eager to Engage the Holy Father on Country's Full Seminaries, Vibrant Church in Rome Visit (ACI Africa)

>14 John5918: As are American Catholic Bishops eager to show the vibrancy of young Catholics in America....JMJ....

>15 brone:

That's good news, but nevertheless the centre of gravity of the Christian Church is fast shifting from the Global North to the Global South.

I can't find any articles relating directly to your post, but this fairly recent one from America Magazine came up: Young U.S. Catholics want more orthodoxy. That doesn’t mean they reject Vatican II.

They surely wouldn't reject Vatlll....JMJ....

Most people I talk to reckon there won't be a Vatican III (Third Vatican Council) in our lifetime. The Catholic Church is conservative (small c) and moves slowly, and it takes a hundred years to really digest a Council and be ready to move forward again. We've only had sixty years so far since the Second Vatican Council. But on the other hand there is a massive global consultation and discernment process going on at the moment in the form of the Synod on Synodality.