Tracking church growth, fertility, anthropology, history & cultural shifts — with a focus on conservative Christianity and Western culture. Ave Christus Rex
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How do Hutterites (Schmiedeleut) elect ministers? Men are nominated from among baptized male married members, voted by colony members. Then the three or four candidates are elected by drawing of lots. That allows God to guide the final choice.
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In case anyone else was after this information, I’ll be posting a 2026 update on Orania when they release their birth and demographic statistics around December.
In the meantime, this summarises the information we have as it stands.
Some early information for you.
Orania had its first population decline in years in 2025, after years of high growth, some years above 15%, this single year decline of -4% was due to:
1. The US refugee scheme allowing White South Africans to move to the US.
2. A temporary shortage in new housing.
Both of these issues have since largely been resolved (most people who wanted to leave to the US already have, and the housing shortage was resolved), so the decline will probably have only been for that year.
Births in the town grew substantially from 21 births in 2024 to 36 in 2025.
I expect that the 2026 data will be positive based on comments from community leaders, one commented that growth in just October this year was very high, so it seems promising.
I’ll post more information in December when we have the 2026 results.
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Today, the Church remembers Gustavus Adolphus who granted the charter for New Sweden colony in the Delaware Valley and thus planted the first Lutheran Churches in PA and DE.
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🇵🇱FINE GRAINED URBANISM: The most interesting and dynamic cities are undoubtedly those that offer a more fine grained urbanism. Economy of scale is of course important to keep prices down, but we must not forget to build "commercially uninteresting plots" in central locations. What I mean with the latter is of course building with smaller or odd premises that are not interesting for chain stores.🧵
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Australia: Total Fertility Rate by Mother’s Country of Origin- 2025
abs.gov.au/statistics/people…
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Stor ny DNA-studie: Goterna var svenskar:
Tidigare blev man kallad rasist om man påstod det.
Svenskättlingarna besegrade Rom och byggde riken runtom i Europa. friatider.se/stor-ny-dna-stu…
James 🇦🇺 retweeted
Was Nebuchadnezzar right to establish blasphemy laws against the Lord in Babylon (Daniel 3) or was that too much Christian Nationalism type stuff?
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Fertility in Kenya is declining at a steady pace and has actually accelerated in the most recent data.
3.9 to 3.4 in 8 years represents a ~1.6% decline per year from 2014 to 2022.
3.4 to 3.1 in the next 4 years represents a ~2.2% per year from 2022 to 2026.
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Goondiwindi Regional Council:
Population: 10,495 (87-90% White)
TFR: 2.51
Notes: Essentially no one moves in from overseas, interstate or even from other parts of QLD, but a small number of people leave annually, the population remains rather stable anyway due to above replacement TFR, the surplus created ends up mostly in metropolitan southeast Queensland.
About ~7% of the population is Aboriginal, they skew the TFR higher, but not by enough to suggest the White population isn’t also decently above replacement, I’d still place the White TFR at ~2.4 based on weighting and Aboriginal TFR elsewhere.
James 🇦🇺 retweeted
🇺🇸 Demographic change under Trump II is looking different.
📈 The share of births to White mothers is growing and - if trends hold - may increase +2.9% across Trump II. Policy matters.
Factors at play:
1. Higher deportations
2. Lower inward migration
3. Pro-natal culture shift
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The same data with population weighted cartography (all incorporated LGAs) for those interested.
Kempsey and Nambucca heads are quite the coastal outliers.
Kempsey is 80-85% White with a TFR of 2.46 (pop: 32k).
Nambucca Valley is 82-84% White with a TFR of 2.5 (pop: 21k).
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I always bang on about the regional TFR divide, but fr, very rural Aussie populations have quite a high TFR, and most of these regions are supermajority White.
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Wollondilly Shire, New South Wales:
TFR: 2.25
Population: 62k (88%+ White)
Internal migration gain: +1,251 annually (mostly White people fleeing Sydney).
Births minus deaths: +350 a year
Overseas migration: +70 a year
(Mostly from the UK, NZ, Malta, Italy and Germany).
Annual population gain: ~1,671
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Precedent: A stable, above replacement TFR, white majority town in Australia.
Narrabri, NSW:
Shire population: 12,797
Town (urban) population: 6,953
Total fertility rate: 2.56
White population: 88%+
Regional migration: -50 people annually.
Births minus deaths: +~35 people annually
Net overseas migration: +~15 in a given year (Some Filipinos and English people, mostly).
The town is effectively demographically stable, within a margin of error.
The small Filipino and Nepalese population are somewhat transient and make up a disproportionate share of people leaving the town after they satisfy their visa requirements (to stay regional for 2-3 years), this means their share of the population barely changes even as more move in.
Yes, but per the regional movers index (RMI), this trend has reduced in recent years, and now the cities send 30% more people to the regions than they receive, the issue is, most of the city to regions surplus goes to satellite regions of Sydney and not back to their original home town.
There is one exception, Narrabri, I’ll write more about it later.