Church-closing rate only one percent: More "churning" among evangelicals
With a dozen regulars or fewer attending services, the 150-year-old Kinderhook United Methodist Church in rural Illinois near the Mississippi River shut its doors this Easter. That Sunday was also the last for St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Cincinnati, where only 16 households were putting something in the collection plate. “The service was as solemn as the funeral of a child,” a deacon told the city’s newspaper.