Just How Big Is Britain’s Religious Revival?

The report is worth reading in full, but the general takeaway is that recent years have witnessed a definite “change in the spiritual weather.” (How’s that for a charmingly British turn of phrase?) While this has been in the air for a while, there is now irrefutable proof—or so the Bible Society claims—that “the Church is in a period of rapid growth, driven by young adults and in particular young men.” More specifically, they estimate that the number of adults who are “churchgoing Christians” (defined as ticking a Christian box, and saying they go to church at least once a month) has surged “from 3.7m in 2018 to 5.8m in 2024—an increase of 56%.” In the same period, monthly churchgoing has quadrupled among those aged eighteen to twenty-four from 4 percent to 16 percent. Catholics and Pentecostals are the biggest beneficiaries; the two Anglican Churches—the Church of England and the Church in Wales (where prepositions matter nearly as much as pronouns)—markedly less so.