Australia's new relationship with Christianity

One in 10 Australians who said they were non-religious in the 2016 Census said they were a Christian five years later.

That’s not a statistic we heard in media reporting of the Census results, which, if it mentioned religion at all, focused on the “no religion” category.

However, research company McCrindle has taken a deeper look at the official statistics as well as its own research in a report title. An Undercurrent of Faith: Australia’s Renewed Relationship with Christianity.

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“We’ve asked people who’ve moved away from Christianity, ‘What were the reasons that you moved away?’”

Mr Dusting says “For a lot of people, it’s less about their beliefs having changed and more a dissatisfaction with how they’ve seen Christianity practiced. “I think there’s an opportunity and a challenges there for all rank-and-file Christians ... to say, ‘How am I living out the Christian message in its truth and beauty and goodness?’ There’s an opportunity there, because people and society—they’re looking to see that lived out genuinely.”

Read the entire article in Southern Cross Magazine (May-June) edition page13

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