American Christianity

“If history is any guide, we can expect the current predictions—that fewer than half of Americans will identify as Christians—to contain an element of truth. But it probably won’t play out exactly as many people anticipate.” - CToday

I would probably prefer Anglicanism to this non-descript and dumbed down church life stripped of tradition, history, symbolism, language and very seriously accommodated to suburban, white, affluent, sensitivities and values.

“Two recent books have taken up these questions in a markedly optimistic spirit: Glenn Stanton’s The Myth of the Dying Church: How Christianity is Actually Thriving in America and the World and Rick Richardson’s You Found Me: New Research on How Unchurched Nones, Millennials, and Irreligious are Surprisingly Open to Christian Faith.” - Christi

“We are seldom given any data that would help us weigh polls. For all we know, if someone told the BBC pollster he was a Christian (“describe themselves as Christian”), he was simply taken at his word.



The story of white Christian America is, among other things, a story of changing demographics, evolving attitudes toward organized religion, and an ensconced political establishment that some working class whites view as being lost at sea.



The Decline of White Christian America, Explained in 4 Books



Pew research: Stinginess Is More Sinful than Divorce, Say Churchgoing Evangelicals

Newsweek published a front-page hit-piece against Christianity. One Christian scholar responds to this “unmitigated disaster” of an article.

What will American Christianity look like in 50 years?