“Given the shift, we might assume that religion plays a less important role in people’s lives today than it once did…. However, the evidence reveals something very different: faith still has a powerful link to human flourishing, including for young people.” - IFS
“Today, less than a third of Americans attend church weekly. 75 years ago, half the population did. But are 10,000 churches closing every year? Not really.” - CPost
“The complicated findings, based on relatively small samples within each age group, come as Americans’ religious decline continues to plateau.” - RNS
“These days, evangelistically effective churches are keeping evangelism front of mind in the way they preach, train, and encourage their congregations. They’re celebrating small wins. And they’re leading with a high view of Scripture, prayer, and God’s sovereignty.” - TGC
“Latter-day Saints have grown more diverse and a bit less religious, and more of them are leaving the church, says a new report from Pew Research Center.” - RNS
“Slightly more than half of U.S. Protestant pastors (54%) report the average worship service attendance at their church has increased by at least 4% since 2023, according to a Lifeway Research study…. Another 30% say their congregation has plateaued” - Lifeway
“Most polls do not ask follow-up questions about a person’s religious identity. When they do ask Nones about their specific beliefs, however, we see that they overwhelmingly believe in God (or a ‘higher power’), and they think people have souls.” - CPost
“In many cases, the differences don’t reflect conflicting realities, but rather significant dissimilarities in how researchers measure and report religion in America today. This, in turn, leads to confusion and can create difficulties in understanding what’s really going on.” - Gallup
“Religious historians will look back at 2006 as the absolute peak of denominationalism in the United States….Then the cracks started to form. Slowly at first, and then the pinholes became the size of golf balls and the hull of the SBC began taking on water in an incredibly rapid fashion.” - Ryan Burge
“More regular attenders say they hear messages from their clergy against abortion than in support of abortion rights” - Pew
