As the Methodist Church in Britain loses members, one religious affairs commentator described it as “like an iceberg that’s just crumbling into the sea.”
The comments of Linda Woodhead, a sociologist of religion at Lancaster University, follow the publication of a report titled “Statistics for Mission” by the Methodist Church, which shows a dramatic collapse of membership to about 200,000 in the U.K. in the last decade.
“It’s totally dying out,” she said. “On current trends, [the Methodists] will disappear, very soon.”
