Every metric is slowing down except for the number of new temples the church is building or planning, writes Jana Riess.
The Laie Hawaii Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, photographed Friday, April 1, 2022.The April General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is historically the time of year when the denomination releases its statistical reports about membership numbers, missionary service and new temples for the previous year.
In 2021, the LDS Church around the world reported growth just under 1%. The good news from the perspective of the mission-minded faith is that this was an improvement over the dismal year of 2020, when growth was just over half a percent during the worst of the shutdown amid the pandemic. According to Christian Anderson, a biophysicist in Utah who follows LDS Church growth trends, even more concerning than the shrinking rate of growth is the raw number of new members being added each year.
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