It's not at all surprising and it points to what I've been occasionally saying: that we need to be aware of what this is saying to the churches. I just don't think that many well-churched people realise just how irrelevant or even positively unhelpful the church appears to people who are attracted by 'spirituality' and 'mysticism'.
Note this: "Kendal mirrors the national statistics with eerie precision: 2,207 people in the town — 7.9 per cent of the population — attend church on Sunday while 600 — 1.6 per cent of the population of the town and environs — take part in some kind of holistic activity.
During the 1990s, when the town’s population grew by 11.4 per cent, participation in the “new spirituality” grew by 300 per cent. Woodhead and Heelas contend that “mini revolutions” have already taken place, and point out that in Kendal the holistic milieu now outnumbers every single major denomination apart from Anglican."
My response is that I am hoping shortly [probably in the new year] to open up some 'spirituality' activities in the city centre -basic meditation, 'khi qi' and perhaps a kind of spiritual direction based on tarot cards [see Drane et all 'Beyond Prediciton']
PS Further thoughts a few posts on.
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nice to get the feedback? What in it particularly made it worthwhile reading?
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