Why Canadians Aren't Going To Church

Weekly church attendance in Canada has dropped from roughly 50% in 1960 to about 10% now. What social changes help explain this drastic decline in institutional religiosity? Has this decline affected evangelical churches too? Evangelical churches have shown greater vitality than mainline Protestant and Catholic churches, but there are many reasons to be concerned about the future of evangelicalism as well as some reasons for hope. Dr. Sam Reimer will outline these reasons and also explain what he considers to be the most important religious change in the last 50 years, which partially accounts for declining institutional religiosity.

This presentation is sponsored by the Religion in Canada Institute and is scheduled for Thursday, March 23 from 7-9 p.m. in the Northwest Auditorium on the Trinity Western University campus (Langley, BC). This is a public event that is open to anyone who wishes to attend.

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Dr. Sam Reimer is Professor of Sociology at Crandall University, Moncton, NB. He has published extensively on evangelicalism in Canada including the books Evangelicals and the Continental Divide: The Conservative Protestant Subculture in Canada and the United States and with Dr. Michael Wilkinson, Professor of Sociology at Trinity Western University, A Culture of Faith: Evangelical Congregations in Canada.