KINGDOM VANGUARD
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The bibliography

Every source, and whether we have actually read it.

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August 2026 self-audit

We withdrew a clergy-burnout statistic that church literature had been repeating for years. The primary document did not contain it.

The figure was attributed to a Swedish state register study. We retrieved that study. It ranks no occupations at all — its results sit in a table appendix that is not separately published, and its own headline occupational findings are healthcare, animal care, pharmacy and security. Clergy do not appear.

The finding appears to originate in a report from twelve years earlier, circulating since as though it were current. It is unverified, not disproven — the numbers may sit in that unpublished appendix. So the entry carries a new status rather than disappearing, and nothing on this site rests on it.

The same audit corrected a misattributed co-author, a study cited under the title of a different book, a survey title paired with the wrong language's abbreviation, and a widely-repeated closure statistic that overstated what its source actually said.

What each status means

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SECONDARY

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CONTESTED

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All entries Turabian 10th ed.
01Svenska kyrkan. "Svenska kyrkans medlemsutveckling 1972–2024." Accessed August 28, 2026.Verified at source
02Bromander, Jonas. "Långsiktig projektion av Svenska kyrkans medlemsutveckling." Svenska kyrkan. Accessed August 28, 2026.Verified at source
03Hagevi, Magnus. "Sakralisering efter sekularisering? Religiös förändring över tid och mellan generationer." In I rörelse, 65–80. Göteborg: SOM-institutet, Göteborgs universitet, 2025.Verified at source
04Försäkringskassan. Sjukfrånvaro i psykiatriska diagnoser: En registerstudie av Sveriges arbetande befolkning i åldern 20–69 år. Socialförsäkringsrapport 2020:8. Stockholm: Försäkringskassan, 2020. Accessed August 29, 2026.Primary document retrieved; it does not contain the figure attributed to it. No claim on this site rests on this source.
05Lidwall, Ulrik, Sofia Bill, Edward Palmer, and Christina Olsson Bohlin. Sjukfrånvaro i psykiska diagnoser: En studie av Sveriges befolkning 16–64 år. Socialförsäkringsrapport 2014:4. Stockholm: Försäkringskassan, 2014. Accessed August 29, 2026.Confirmed at a secondary source; primary document not retrieved
06Kyrkans Akademikerförbund. "Präster och diakoner löper störst risk att drabbas av stressrelaterad ohälsa och utmattningssyndrom." March 1, 2023. Accessed August 29, 2026.Primary document retrieved; it does not contain the figure attributed to it. No claim on this site rests on this source.
07Gullberg, Anita. "Därför toppar kyrkan listan över psykisk ohälsa." Arbetsliv (Prevent), October 3, 2024. Accessed August 29, 2026.Confirmed at a secondary source; primary document not retrieved
08Tweedie, Fiona, and Liz Graveling Fox, with Charlotte Hobson and Elaine Farrow. ‘Lord, for the Years’: Clergy Wellbeing 2017–2025. Living Ministry Panel Survey Wave 5. London: Church of England, December 2025.Verified at source
09Paas, Stefan. "A Case Study of Church Growth by Church Planting in Germany: Are They Connected?" International Bulletin of Mission Research 42, no. 1 (January 2018): 40–54.Verified at source
10Paas, Stefan, and Alrik Vos. "Church Planting and Church Growth in Western Europe: An Analysis." International Bulletin of Mission Research 40, no. 3 (July 2016): 243–252.Verified at source
11Paas, Stefan. Church Planting in the Secular West: Learning from the European Experience. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016.Verified at source
12Sveriges Frikyrkosamråd. Frikyrkoundersökningen. Reported in Dagen, "Fortsatt nedgång för frikyrkorna enligt Frikyrkoundersökningen." Accessed August 28, 2026.Verified at source
13"Antalet frivilliga i Svenska kyrkan har halverats på fyra år." Dagen, November 27, 2024. Reporting research by Sara Fransson.Verified at source
14Fransson, Sara, Jonas Bromander, and Johan von Essen. Av fri vilja på fri tid: ideellt arbete i Svenska kyrkans barn- och ungdomsverksamhet på 2020-talet. Uppsala: Svenska kyrkan, 2021.Verified at source
15Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland. "Evangelische Kirche veröffentlicht Mitgliedszahlen für das Jahr 2025." March 16, 2026.Verified at source
16Forschungsgruppe Weltanschauungen in Deutschland. "Kirchenmitglieder Ende 2025: 43,8 Prozent." Accessed August 28, 2026.Verified at source
17Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland. Kirche im Umbruch: Zwischen demografischem Wandel und nachlassender Kirchenverbundenheit. Projection by the Forschungszentrum Generationenverträge, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, under the direction of Bernd Raffelhüschen. Hannover: EKD, May 2019.Verified at source
18Pew Research Center. How the Global Religious Landscape Changed from 2010 to 2020, "Religion in Europe." Washington, DC: Pew Research Center, June 9, 2025.Verified at source
19Pew Research Center. "Has There Been a Christian Revival among Young Adults in the UK? Recent Surveys May Be Misleading." January 23, 2026.Verified at source
20"Bible Society Says That Its Quiet Revival Report Was Based on a 'Faulty' Survey." Church Times, March 26, 2026.Verified at source
21"UK's Bible Society on the Defensive after Retracting Report on Revival." Religion News Service, April 1, 2026.Verified at source
22Conférence des évêques de France. "Enquête du catéchuménat 2026: les baptêmes adultes et adolescents en chiffres." Accessed August 28, 2026.Verified at source
23Bundesamt für Statistik. Religion und Spiritualität in der Schweiz: Ergebnisse der Erhebung zur Sprache, Religion und Kultur 2024. BFS-Nummer 1368-2400. Neuchâtel: BFS, June 23, 2025.Verified at source
24National Churches Trust. The National Churches Survey: Giving Every Church a Voice. London: National Churches Trust, October 2025.Verified at source
25Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. "Daling aandeel mensen dat aangeeft bij religie te horen stagneert." 2025.Verified at source
26Gloo, and Barna Group. "Majority of Pastors Use AI in Ministry amid Concerns and Caution, New Research Finds." June 16, 2026.Verified at source
27Church of England. Statistics for Mission 2024. London: Church of England Data Services, October 2025.Verified at source
28Myndigheten för ungdoms- och civilsamhällesfrågor. "Trossamfund: antal betjänade." Accessed August 28, 2026.Verified at source
29Equmeniakyrkan. Årsredovisning 2024. Stockholm: Equmeniakyrkan, 2025.Verified at source
30Lemos, Carlos, and Ivan Puga-Gonzalez. "Belief in God, Confidence in the Church and Secularization in Scandinavia." Secularism and Nonreligion 10, no. 1 (2021): 5.Verified at source
31Center for the Study of Global Christianity. Status of Global Christianity, 2026. South Hamilton, MA: Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 2026.Verified at source
32Den norske kirke. "Flere innom kirken i 2025." Accessed August 28, 2026.Verified at source
33Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko. "Kirkkoon liittyneiden määrä jatkaa nousuaan." February 5, 2026.Verified at source
34Folkekirken. "Medlemmer af folkekirken." Accessed August 28, 2026.Verified at source
35Svenska kyrkan. Nyckeln till Svenska kyrkan 2025, kap. 6. Uppsala: Svenska kyrkan, 2025.Verified at source
36Myndigheten för ungdoms- och civilsamhällesfrågor. Så tycker unga 2025: hälsa, fritid och framtid. Stockholm: MUCF, May 14, 2025.Verified at source
37National Centre for Social Research. British Social Attitudes Survey, 2024 [BSA 42]. 2nd ed. Data collection. UK Data Service, 2026. SN 9478. https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-9478-2.Verified at source
38Curtice, John. "Is There a Religious Revival in Britain?" National Centre for Social Research, December 22, 2025.Verified at source
39Curtice, John. "No Revival in Sight: Church Attendance in Britain Remains below Pre-Pandemic Levels." National Centre for Social Research, May 18, 2026.Verified at source

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