Fishing for Millennials? A Present Hope for the Diocese of Niagara
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Abstract
Abstract My full-time ministry began in mid-August,1977 and continued until my retirement on December 31, 2017. Throughout that time, the Anglican Church of Canada was increasingly aware of declining membership, accompanied by a decline in financial resources. It has been suggested that this ongoing decline has begun to define the Anglican Church. “The church as a whole has come to embody the story of how we are not relevant or popular.” Introducing contemporary liturgy was an abiding interest and a focus of my ministry. I realized that creating a welcoming and inclusive community, increasing lay participation and highlighting children’s ministry were also important aspects of parish life. While the Anglican concern with decline underscored my research, it was not at the centre of it. More important to this dissertation is the question of whether the principles that guided my ministry could contribute to a missional outreach to Millennials, which has become a focus of the Diocese of Niagara. While many Millennials do not attend church, they admit that they have spiritual needs, and are involved in private prayer and bible reading. In contrast there are some Millennials in the Diocese of Niagara who attend church regularly and participate in the life of their parish. It is these Millennials who are the basis of this dissertation, through a research project that asked them about their personal response to liturgy. In the process, they revealed a considerable amount of data about other aspects of parish life, and suggested some reasons so many in their demographic are disinclined to attend church. Their insights could assist the diocesan evangelistic efforts to reach non-attending Millennials.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".