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Brentwood Presbyterian Church, 1600 Delta Ave, Burnaby, BC
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Tickets: $20 (includes snacks & lunch) | Register by email
Join Stuart Macdonald, co-author of Leaving Christianity: Changing Allegiances in Canada since 1945, for a full day consultation on the decline of churches in Canada. The event will feature dialogue with church leaders in Canada's most secular city.
In Leaving Christianity Brian Clarke and Stuart Macdonald quantitatively map the nature and extent of Canadians’ disengagement with organized religion and assess the implications for Canadian society and its religious institutions. Drawing on a wide array of national and denominational statistics, they illustrate how the exodus that began with disaffected baby boomers and their parents has become so widespread that religiously unaffiliated Canadians are now the new majority. While the old mainstream Protestant churches have been the hardest hit, the Roman Catholic Church has also experienced a significant decline in numbers, especially in Quebec.
Brian Clarke teaches in the Toronto School of Theology and Emmanuel College at the University of Toronto. Stuart Macdonald is professor at Knox College and instructor in the Toronto School of Theology at the University of Toronto.