Religious Trends

“Decline will happen in the future, but my best guess is that the rate of decline is slowing.” - MinistryWatch

“To be sure, most Americans continue to say that religion’s role in society is declining. But the share who take this position fell sharply from 80% in 2024 to 68% in 2025.” - Pew

“The data was collected in the summer of 2023 and shared in a report published last week. The error margin for this data is 2.1 percentage points.” - CPost

“American churchgoers are becoming less sure about what the Bible says regarding abortion, human sexuality, and gender, according to a study conducted by Family Research Council’s Center for Biblical Worldview.” - C.Leaders

“An analysis of the 2022-2023 Cooperative Election Study, surveying nearly 85,000 Americans, found a positive correlation between education and weekly religious attendance. The rate of attendance rises from 23% among high school graduates to 30% for those with graduate degrees.” - Unherd

“In a shift that has become much more noticeable in five of the last six years, men, especially among millennials and Generation X, have been outpacing women in church attendance. The trend spiked significantly this year, a new Barna report has found.” - CPost

“Many people are describing the memorial and its aftermaths as an indication of revival. That makes sense, given that church attendance is on the rise, especially among younger Americans. That number has spiked again in recent weeks, rising another 15% since Kirk’s memorial.” - Breakpoint

“More than 2 in 3 Americans (68 percent) say God is unchanging…. Seven in 10 (71 percent) agree there is one true God in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.” - Baptist Press

Most religious: “50% in Mississippi are highly religious, based on an overall scale of religiousness.” Least: Vermont at 13%. - Pew

“There’s a spectrum here…. I think what you’ve got somewhere in the middle is people who both recognize the cultural value of Christianity and all it’s given us in the West, but who are also sort of quite attracted to it as well, but perhaps are struggling to commit to the supernatural claims” - Breakpoint