Revival statistics can’t tell you everything
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Dr Claire Williams2026-07-30T09:39:00
As excitement continues over reports of church renewal, we mustn’t overlook the quieter, slower and less dramatic journeys to faith that rarely make the headlines, says Dr Claire Williams
Stories of growing church numbers continue to make news in the Christian press. The authors of the now withdrawn Quiet Revival report could not surely have foreseen the…
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