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Is the end of Christendom nigh? with A.N. Wilson
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:25:05
Publish Date: 2024-12-13 08:00:00
Description:
Thousands of Brits will be attending Christmas and carol services throughout December. Yet festive attendance masks the reality that church congregations just aren’t holding up. The most optimistic of estimates suggest that regular church attendance has almost halved in the UK since 2009. This is just one of the factors that has led the historian and writer A.N. Wilson, in the Christmas edition of The Spectator this week, to declare that the end of Christendom is nigh.

On this episode of Holy Smoke, A.N. Wilson joins Damian Thompson to discuss his thesis. Like Platinism, is Christianity doomed to become extinct in practice? When was the last time England was truly, and fervently, religious? And are measures like female priests and Anglo-Catholic services a symptom – or a cause – of the Church’s decline?

You can read more from A.N. Wilson on his Substack.

Produced by Patrick Gibbons.  
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