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How Should Evangelicals Respond to the Vanishing Mainline? A Review of Ryan Burge’s ‘The Vanishing Church’

By Filings on Wed, 01/14/26
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“Burge, a political science professor who is probably the leading analyst of religion data in the United States today, points out that not all branches of American Christianity are declining. The percentage of Americans who identify as evangelical is just as high as it was fifty years ago, during the 1970s.” - Mere Orthodoxy

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