Church of England appears to stop using the word 'church' to sound more 'relevant': study

A new study conducted in the UK shows that new "church plants" for the Church of England have avoided the word "church" for the past 10 years or more.

The qualitative study inspected language used by 11 Church of England dioceses to describe their new churches. Jasmine is a writer at Fox News Digital and a military spouse based in New Orleans. Stories can be sent to jasmine.baehr@fox.com

Traditionally, new churches are referred to as "church plants." In this study, the Centre for Church Planting Theology discovered that even though more than 900 new churches were established by 11 dioceses in the past 10 years, none of them used the word "church plant" or "church.""Not one diocese used the term ‘church’ in their main descriptor. ‘Church plant’ is not used by any of the 11 dioceses. Only one diocese used ‘fresh expressions’ of ‘pioneering’ in its descriptor," reads the study's conclusion.