- A rocky road to the enthronement of the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Further turmoil and scandal in the Anglican Episcopates of the United Kingdom.
- No progress for those hoping for Equal Marriage in the Church of England.
- More talk about the Quiet Revival which will continue not to show up in denominational statistics.
- Success for BBC Farage TV as Reform make great gains in the May elections
- Despite its record in government, the SNP get about 60 seats in the new Scottish Parliament.
- Because of its record in government, the Labour party gets terrible results and there is an attempt to remove Keir Starmer as leader.
- Despite its record both in and out of government the Democratic Party does well in the November elections in the USA.
- Stock market has another volatile year but ends up on this year, but not by much. FTSE is 9,931 at the start of the year.
- 2026 is the hottest year ever recorded.
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I’d always thought there were about 20,000 Piskies. The odd thing about these figures is they offer 4 ways of being Anglican in Scotland (Episcopalian, SEC, Anglican and Church of England.) Added together it looks like there could be around 100,000 Anglicans in Scotland (71k CofE/Anglican and 29k Piskie/SEC).
According to the Scottish Church Census of 2002, there were only 18,870 Episcopalians in Scotland – so looks like the SEC is doing OK. (Although in-house figures for 2002 put it at 45k). At the high point in the 1920s the SEC had supposedly 140000 members and touching 60,000 communicants – our decline in 90 years has been steep, of course, but has levelled, and, as others have pointed out, the damage has been far less severe than elsewhere.
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I wonder what the breakdown is of religion and Scottish/non-Scottish born is. If many who put down CoE were born and baptized in England and haven’t set foot in a church since (except perhaps to attend weddings and funerals) that might explain why they don’t know that north of the border the equivalent is the Piskies. They now live in Scotland and put down CoE as a reflex though for all intents and purposes they are non-religious.
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Absolutely. Confusing the SEC with the Church of Scotland is a dilemma that I have to deal with regularly within the African communities in Scotland.
I couldn’t agree more with your suggestions around mission and growth strategy. It’s not and will not work until, they are professionally redesigned in line with contemporary expectations and style.
I made the same points you are making in one of our frustrating TISEC meetings, the church is tarnishing away in the hands of people who are either to lazy to be imaginative or who simply don’t care about the future. I honestly have one prayer, people like you to become in charge one day!
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