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particularly common among America’s
mainstream Protestant churches.
As in any business, when two churches
combine, their leaders can clash, cultural
changes can put members off, and joint fi­
nances do not always work out. In church
mergers, the weaker one is likely to lose
followers. About a fifth lose more than
40% of their congregation within a year of
the union, according to a survey in 2019 of
almost a thousand church leaders who had
been through a merger in the past decade.
But around 1,750 Protestant “mega­
churches” with more than 2,000 regular
attendees and multimillion­dollar budgets
have sprung up—some as a result of merg­
ers. Some have lots of sites. Warren Bird, an
American pastor who is an expert on mega­
churches, says a good coupling of parishes
is like a successful marriage. Each partner
must bring its own gift to the arrangement,
whereas a struggling church that combines
with one that is thriving may simply get
swallowed up.
Economists are not alone in thinking
religious competition healthy. “If there
were only one religion in England,” argued
the French writer Voltaire in the 1730s,
“there would be danger of despotism. If
there were two they would cut each other’s
throats, but there are 30, and they live in
peace and happiness.” Perhaps he was un­
duly sanguine. But the virus has certainly
made godly institutions take stock of their
commercial as well as spiritual assets.

Surfing for Jesus
United States, covid-19 online church attendance
% responding*
Source: Barna, “State of the Church”
*Among 562 practising Christians polled Apr-May 2020
Switched from
pre-covid church
Viewing multiple
churches
Stopped attending
during covid
Still only attending
pre-covid church
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
012


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The Economist 
January 8th 2022
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