News&Reporting

Before the coronavirus hit, conservative Protestant churchgoers were least concerned about a future pandemic.

The good news and bad news about Generation Z’s unexpected religious trends.

Compared to other colleges, students at evangelical institutions end up gaining the most knowledge of world religions.

Their attendance outpaces other traditions, but still lags far behind married evangelicals.

A growing share of mainline Protestants and Catholics have taken on the once-distinctive label over the past three decades.

The center is disappearing in American politics and American religion. Moderates are becoming an endangered species.

Pastors, denominational leaders, and curious Christians need to be reassured—American Christianity is not becoming more liberal.

The income gap in the US corresponds with a church attendance gap.

Analysis on recent survey results may provide Christians with some encouragement—and reproof.

Religion plays a key role in American immigration politics.

Analysis: The bigger factor behind the SBC’s decline isn’t the struggle to gain new converts; it’s keeping their own.

We have hard data about just how much altruism is practiced by Americans from all religious affiliations.

Current statistics about the secularization of American may come as a surprise.

Three important trends regarding race and faith that must be considered as we try to lead evangelicalism through this era.

The 2018 General Social Survey reports American evangelicals holding steady amid growth of the unaffiliated—and a surprising uptick for mainline Protestants.

How political divides impact religious affiliation and attendance.

According to sociology’s top survey, black and white evangelicals have more in common than politics conveys.

Born-again believers have kept the faith over four decades, while most religious switching has been between mainline Protestants and the “nones.”

Research shows 1 in 6 US Christians changed their religious affiliation over a four-year span, with nondenominational worshipers leading the way.