I'm a nerd at heart, an engineer by profession, and a big kid according to my wife. I love a good graph, and even blogged about Venn diagrams a few years ago.
I found this site that has some interesting charts.
Here are some from that site that have some relavance to the Mormon church, and are possibly worrisome to the leadership in Salt Lake
Is it any wonder that Elder Oaks urged young adults to get married in his talk last week? What are the biggest concerns the Church would have with the above tends?
Now here is one that is obviously very worrisome to the Q15
Neither the red or green line show any indication they will change their current trajectory. This will further drive away the newer generations from conservative religions in general, and the LDS church in particular.
And now a graph that is causing Pres Ezra "women come home" Benson to roll over in his grave.
The good news is the Church is slowing stepping away from it rhetoric on mothers not working outside the home. You can read an excellent review of this shift by Jana Reiss called "Mormonism's slow shift away from demonizing working mothers"
The Church recently published some graphs in their News Room that showed the growth of the church since the beginning. Here is the main graph.
Missing from the above chart are how many members are active. The above graph was scaled so that the decline in the rate of membership growth is almost entirely obscured. If you look very carefully, you'll see that the line dips slightly from 2013 to 2022, but nobody but nerds like me will even notice it. Below is a graph from the Wikipedia page for LDS membership history, that shows better the decline in growth in the church not evident in the Church's graph.
What do you think of all of the above graphs? What jumps out to you? Did any of these numbers surprise you?
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