American Christianity

"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." - Christianity Today

"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. But suppose a survey reported, 'Of the scientists polled, 83% believe the moon is made of green cheese'... Wouldn’t everyone immediately challenge the survey’s definition of 'scientists'”?

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?