Three thousand former Mormons responded. The good news from the perspective of the mission-minded faith is that this was an improvement over the dismal year of 2020, when growth was just over half a percent during the worst of the shutdown during the pandemic. Dear Mormon parents, it's not just your children who are leaving the church If you are a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you can find your Church record number in several places: Note:Newly baptizedmembers of the Church receive a record number about 24 hours afterthe ward, branch, district, or mission clerk submits the information to the Church Membership Department. For a discussion of differences between self-reported attendance and actual attendance rates, see Brenner, Philip S. 2011. We're seeing into the soul of an organization coming to terms with its own very public death. She was the first to break nationally the dark skin/light skin Lamanite dolls that Mrs. ;-). While more needs to be done to replace the sense of community that churches can often give people, it's undeniable that this decline is tied up with objectively good trends: increasing liberalism, hostility to bigotry, and support for science in the U.S. Americans are becoming better people, however slowly, and the decline in organized religious affiliation appears to be a big part of that. SL Cabbie . Re: The other shoe has fallen. If those numbers agree with the link's numbers, tscc has totally lied their as&$s off on this one, and it can easily be exposed. The only possible countereffect is to incorporate the true information in a much bigger, startling, attention-grabbing story that steam-rolls the first. Copyright 2005 - 2023 | Mormon Stories. But the fact that the direction of the trend is similar in both studies strongly suggests that both are picking up on real and significant change underway in the U.S. religious landscape. The church seems to me to be skewing right to keep the rich old-timers.