Comments on: Does church attendance climb during a recession? http://biblebeltblogger.com/index.php/religion/does-church-attendance-climb-during-a-recession Religion editor Frank Lockwood's spirituality blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:06:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Caleb Powers http://biblebeltblogger.com/index.php/religion/does-church-attendance-climb-during-a-recession/comment-page-1#comment-16174 Caleb Powers Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:20:36 +0000 http://biblebeltblogger.com/?p=672#comment-16174 I don't know if church attendance goes up during bad economic times or not. The press makes out the Episcopal Church as about to dry up and blow away, but you wouldn't know that by the turnout at my parish's midnight service on Christmas Eve. Of course you also wouldn't know there was a recession on by how they dressed; PETA would have had a cow. And these are supposed to be liberals. My son's fiance manages a retail women's clothing store, and she says that she thinks that in hard economic times, shoppers get surlier and meaner. She says that this year's crop of shoppers was a lot meaner than last year's. They haven't tallied up their sales yet for the season, but she doesn't seem to think that at least her store's retail sales were much off from last year, though they were off by some factor. It will be interesting to see how all this plays out. I don’t know if church attendance goes up during bad economic times or not. The press makes out the Episcopal Church as about to dry up and blow away, but you wouldn’t know that by the turnout at my parish’s midnight service on Christmas Eve. Of course you also wouldn’t know there was a recession on by how they dressed; PETA would have had a cow. And these are supposed to be liberals.

My son’s fiance manages a retail women’s clothing store, and she says that she thinks that in hard economic times, shoppers get surlier and meaner. She says that this year’s crop of shoppers was a lot meaner than last year’s. They haven’t tallied up their sales yet for the season, but she doesn’t seem to think that at least her store’s retail sales were much off from last year, though they were off by some factor. It will be interesting to see how all this plays out.

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