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October 2026

October 05, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 10/5/25

The only demographic not in a "sex recession." Adult-only households buy more toys than those...

September 2026

September 25, 2026

Nones, Others, & Switchers

Is American religion declining or reviving? Research gives different answers. Two scholars argue that religion...

May 2026

May 15, 2026

How Religion Can Be Growing and Declining at the Same Time

Is religion making a comeback, or is it still in a state of decline? Different...

April 2026

April 20, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 4/20/26

Evidence young men really are returning to church. Why public school boards are so liberal. And...

April 10, 2025

The Nones Are Actually Declining

A brand new study found that 24% of Americans were "Nones" in 2023. But one...

May 2024

May 31, 2024

Nones Have Stopped Growing (Except for Old People)

Demographer Ryan Burge has found that he percentage of Nones has stopped growing and hasn't...

June 2023

June 02, 2023

New Religion Statistics & Anti-Institutionalism

The General Social Survey--the "gold standard" of polls--is out for 2022, giving updated statistics for...

November 2022

November 25, 2022

Religious Affiliation RISES with Education

The conventional wisdom assumes that education is a secularizing factor, so that the more education...

September 2021

September 01, 2021

Another Social Science Miss: Non-Members Still Go to Church

A recent Gallup poll found that church membership in the United States has fallen to...

November 2020

November 20, 2020

The USA is 1/3 Religious, 1/3 Secularist, & 1/3 in between

When it comes to religion, the best way to describe the nation overall is that...

February 2020

February 19, 2020

Have the “Nones” Stopped Growing?

The number of "Nones," those who claim no religious affiliation, has been going up dramatically,...

December 2019

December 02, 2019

Why Some People Don’t Like Evangelicals

Research from Barna on the general public's perception of evangelicals shows that 25% of Americans...

May 2019

May 22, 2019

Why “Spiritual but not Religious” Doesn’t Help Much

Most of the "Nones" who have no affiliation with any particular religion do hold religious...

March 2018

March 22, 2018

Marriage, Living Together, Divorce Statistics–by Denomination

The Pew Research Center has released a study of marital status in U.S. religious groups. It...

January 2018

January 25, 2018

How Should Churches Respond to the New Findings about American Religion?

In our recent post "Only Moderate Religion Is On the Decline," we reported on new research...

January 23, 2018

“Only Moderate Religion Is On the Decline”

We keep hearing statistics about religious decline in America. But new research has shot that...

June 2017

June 20, 2017

Saying grace

About half of Americans say grace before meals, according to a new study. Even 11%...

April 2017

April 28, 2017

Education and religion

Does having more education mean being less religious? That has been the conventional wisdom in...

March 2017

March 15, 2017

Are atheists dying out?

An article in Evolutionary Psychological Science looks at the "secularization hypothesis," the assumption that modernity would...

March 07, 2017

Will Islam become the world’s largest religion?

A new study says that Islam will pass Christianity as the world's largest religion by...

February 2017

February 13, 2017

Why is Cedar Rapids so Godless?

Iowa defines the American heartland, with its staunch Midwestern values and rural American virtues. Though its...

November 2016

November 04, 2016

India, Africa, Indonesia, and other Lutheran enclaves

Most people associate Lutheranism with Germany, Scandinavia, and the United States. Germany indeed is number...

November 12, 2015

Atheists who believe in God & believers who don’t

According to recent studies, 21% of atheists believe in God. 10% of them pray. A...

November 09, 2015

Less religion, but more commitment?

The latest Religious Landscape study from Pew Research, last conducted in 2007, shows a drop...

May 2015

May 15, 2015

Christian “decline” is just Nominals becoming Nones

The headlines about the Pew Report, including at this blog, say that Christianity is declining...

May 14, 2015

New study shows percentage of Christians declining

The Pew Research Center has released a new study of American religion. In 2007, the...

April 2015

April 13, 2015

The fastest growing religion

A new Pew study of trends in world religions says that Islam is the world's...

April 28, 2014

The world’s most Christian nation. . .

. . .is soon to be China, according to scholars who project that in ten...

August 2013

August 07, 2013

The religious spectrum of liberals and conservatives

E. J. Dionne is a liberal columnist who is also a faithful Catholic. He has...

April 2013

April 01, 2013

Unorganized religion

Michael Gerson discusses the 20% of Americans who describe their religion as "none." It isn't...