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 ...

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

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.

Over time, the orbit decays until there is a crash. Christianity in the United States has followed a similar trajectory, declining about 1% per year. It looked almost inevitable that a crash was ...

Religious researchers said the "data does not indicate an actual reversal in the decline of Christianity," the Times said, but it "might offer a hint at the natural ceiling of nonreligiosity in ...

He is among the nation’s leading experts on conservative Christianity in American politics ... the label “White Evangelical.” But when he explored who started identifying this way, it ...

Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity, differing from other branches primarily in their beliefs regarding sacraments and the papacy. The pope, the Bishop of Rome, is considered a ...