pecusa stats chronicle pecusa decline

You can follow the trail below to read about the errors in a recent presentation by the president of the pecusa house of deputies. If you follow the trail far enough you'll be led to a series of powerpoint slides that were put together for pecusa by Kirk Hadaway, the official pecusa statistician.

Some of the stats have been highlighted in earlier posts here and elsewhere, like the one that shows that pecusa is a very non-inclusive 87% non-hispanic white (see Figure 3). Or, to touch on the current controversy, 27% of pecusa members are 65 or older compared with only 13% of the general population (see Figure 4). There are some other interesting differences between pecusa and the general population that can be viewed in Figure 4.

Figures 6 & 7 deal with conflict in pecusa. Figure 6 states that 65% of pecusa parishes have had at least one major conflict over the last five years and that 35% have had multiple serious conflicts. Figure 7 identifies the source of these conflicts, and the greatest source is the ordination of gay priests and bishops.

Listening to the p.b. and Bonnie Anderson you'd think that conflict over the gay take-over of pecusa was nearly over. pecusa has already lost many theologically conservative parishes, so why the continuing conflict? How many biblically literate episcopalians are left in pecusa? Perhaps the answer to this question is found in Figure 14 where we find that 27% of pecusa respondents identify themselves as conservatives. This is somewhat balanced by 31% who identify themselves as liberal. The mushy middle of pecusa is occupied by the remaining 41% (leaving 1% for the totally clueless).

It isn't a very pretty picture for pecusa, but then, you already knew that.