Religious Trends

“Around the world, many people who do not identify with any religion nevertheless hold a variety of spiritual and religious beliefs, including the belief that there is life after death, according to a Pew Research Center study of religiously unaffiliated adults in 22 countries.” - Pew

“As of mid-2025, that gap is the largest we’ve ever observed in our research (men at 45% and women at 36%). Over the past several years, we’ve been curious about what appears to be a sizable shift in the faith-life of American men and women.” - Barna

“…only about 16 percent of ‘nones’ ever considered themselves ‘born again.’ That means that nearly 84 percent of ‘nones’ are not ‘exvangelicals’or ‘deconstructed’ Christians. They were unbelievers all along.” - MinistryWatch

“Amid secularization, a paradoxical spiritual uptick is emerging: 66% of U.S. adults now report a personal commitment to Jesus that remains important today—a 12-point surge from the pandemic low of 54% in 2021.” - C.Leaders

“While both the PCUSA and the ELCA may be rich in property and endowments, their free-falling membership points to a future of churches empty both of people and of faith. This sudden bankruptcy has been years in the making.” - Carl Trueman

“Most countries have Christian majorities…. However, the Christian share of the population has dropped in many countries. And some countries lost their Christian majority between 2010 and 2020” - Pew

“Our data, however, show no evidence that Gen Z men are becoming more religious. Nor do we find that Gen Z men who attend church frequently hold more moderate political or social views.” - The Hill

“Our statistical analyses found that supernatural beliefs in the United States tend to group into four types. The first represents what many consider ‘traditional religious beliefs.’ These include beliefs in God, the existence of angels and demons….

“The trend is especially pronounced among twenty-somethings. Last year, a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 39% of Gen Z women identify as religiously unaffiliated, compared with just 31% of men. Among white evangelicals, young men had begun showing significantly more religiosity than women.” - Breakpoint

“From 2000 to 2017, the share of Protestants in the U.S. fell from 57% to 46%, and Catholics dropped from 25% to 21%, while religious nones jumped from 8% to 20%. Since that time, however, each group has remained within a few percentage points of its share. Currently, Protestants are at 45%, Catholics are at 21%, and the unaffiliated are at 22%.” - Baptist Press