Latter-day Saints lead the way in church attendance, but the numbers may not reflect reality

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Worship service attendance is down for religious groups nationwide. LDS Church appears to be one of the few exceptions.

COVID and the rise of the nonreligious have translated to more empty pews nationwide for every religious group — almost.

And, in fact, there is one critical weakness shared by all of these studies. All four rely on self-reporting. And, as sociologists will tell anyone who will listen, what people say they do and what they actually do, don’t always line up.harvested from 2.

A constant does emerge from all this disparate data, however. No matter how you slice it, Latter-day Saints smoke the competition in terms of turnout. Only two groups — Jewish and Muslim Americans — saw their activity rates increase during the study’s 20-year span, both by single digits.So what has America’s congregations deflating like a punctured balloon?

 

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