For decades, social scientists, demographers and Christians themselves have told a familiar story about the state of Christianity in the United States: The country was rapidly secularizing.

A sweeping census on the state of American religion reveals a less sensational tale of Christianity in decline and a rise of the religiously unaffiliated compared to a decade ago. Pew Research ...

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New Religious Landscape Study from Pew Research Center found 62% of U.S. adults identify as Christian, 29% are religiously unaffiliated, often called “nones,” and 7% identify with other religions.

We’ve been telling ourselves the wrong story about Christianity in the United States. Since surveys began showing a surge in nonreligious adults in the mid-1990s, many have assumed the Christian ...

For decades, social scientists, demographers and Christians themselves have told a familiar story about the state of Christianity in the United States: The country was rapidly secularizing.

Researchers expect further declines in Christianity, but some young-adult ministers see revival brewing. Tre’ Giles heard a lot about different spiritualities from young people in Portland ...

NEW YORK — While the Christian share of the U.S. population has remained relatively stable in recent years, the country’s religious composition continues to evolve. For the first time in decades, a ...

Some, like Dorothy L. Sayers, would argue that Christianity is essentially a little bit irreverent—after all, it says that God came as a man and said irreverent things, like “the tax collectors and ...

I am a Christian, but I have long believed that Christian nationalism is a distortion of Christianity. I also happen to be white and the fact that Christian Nationalists are almost always white ...

“Christian nationalism,” which is rampant in the United States right now, is idolatry. People are more dedicated to the nation than to truth and God. However, God is bigger than any ...

One of Christianity’s biggest champions — in a world submerged by secularism — is also new to the faith. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch-American activist, author and thinker, has become best ...