Young Clergy Have All But Disappeared
This report is shocking. I knew that younger clergy were in short supply these days, but I didn't realize just how short that supply has become. Just 4% of ECUSA's clergy today are under 35 years of age! And in the Roman Catholic Church the percentage of young priests is even slightly lower--3%. In fact, no "mainline" American denomination can boast more than 7% of its clergy under age 35. What happened?
Did you know that if it pleases God that I be ordained next year I will still be slightly younger than the average Episcopal ordinand at the age of 42? Lord, have mercy! Even if the Episcopal church by some unforeseen turn of events remains together past this summer's General Convention, what kind of long term future could it possibly have if so many of its clergy are either geriatric or soon to become so? Hat tip to titusonenine.
Did you know that if it pleases God that I be ordained next year I will still be slightly younger than the average Episcopal ordinand at the age of 42? Lord, have mercy! Even if the Episcopal church by some unforeseen turn of events remains together past this summer's General Convention, what kind of long term future could it possibly have if so many of its clergy are either geriatric or soon to become so? Hat tip to titusonenine.
posted by Texanglican (R.W. Foster+) | 9:06 AM
2 Comments:
What happened? "The Process."
They do all sorts of things to attract young people, but once we hit our 20s, they tell us to go work for a decade or put us through a process of at least that long anyway. And if you're orthodox and female, you can double that estimate.
The Church today in the modern age as we know it, need more from the laity, it lives b/c the laity exists, often i'm challenging my fellow RC's to be of more lay mentality then the Clerical. We must get one thing right the establishment of wholesome families from these families produce our clergy! so pray for strong wholesome families!
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