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2026 89

  1. You Can’t Move a Church to the Suburbs
  2. Are 'Real' Catholics as Conservative as Evangelicals? Still no.
  3. The Math on Orthodox Christian Growth Doesn't Add Up (Yet)
  4. Where Do Americans Vote? The Surprising Role of Churches in Election Day
  5. Catholic Schools and Weekly Mass Aren’t Solving the Retention Crisis
  6. Canada's Religious Revival That Never Came
  7. What Can We Learn from the 100 Largest United Methodist Churches?
  8. Why Do You Have SO MANY BIBLES?
  9. Are Evangelicals Holding the Line Against Secularization?
  10. Are Black Protestants and White Evangelicals Actually the Same?
  11. Why Private Religion and Public Religion Tell Different Stories
  12. Why Do Educated People Go to Church More?
  13. Parents and Adult Children Aren't Fighting as Much as TikTok Thinks
  14. The Religious Behavior Index: How Engaged Are Americans, Really?
  15. Who Do You Talk to When You’re Struggling?
  16. Freedom for the Thought That We Hate
  17. The Two Dimensions of Religious Belief in America
  18. When Do We Become the Person We Ought to Be?
  19. How Well Do We Actually Know American Religion?
  20. Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?
  21. Belief Isn't Dying, It's Just Getting Less Certain
  22. Which Racial Group Is the Most Religious?
  23. So You Want Your Child to Keep the Faith?
  24. Finance Majors Go to Church. English Majors Don't
  25. The LDS Church Has a Retention Problem
  26. Where Does Alcoholics Anonymous Go When the Churches Close?
  27. Mainline Clergy Are Different — And It's Not Because of Who They Are
  28. Three Things You're Getting Wrong About Religion Data
  29. The Socializing Power of the Pew: How Church Closes the Education Gap
  30. The Conformity Gap: What American Catholics Actually Believe and Practice
  31. The First Wave Left with Conviction. The Second Wave Just Drifted
  32. Built for a Church That No Longer Exists
  33. The Denomination That's Half Evangelical, Half Black Protestant — And somehow holding together
  34. Cosplaying Free Speech
  35. The Purists Are Losing: How American Catholics Are Rewriting the Rules
  36. The Nones Are Everywhere Now
  37. America's Largest Churches: Over a Decade of Data
  38. 54 Countries, One Survey, A Lot of Religion
  39. Should America Have a Christian Culture?
  40. Faith and the Voting Booth: How Trump's Approval is Trailing the 2024 Vote Share
  41. Gen Z Doesn't Trust Anyone
  42. Can Americans Still Get Ahead?
  43. The Southern Baptist Convention's Ledger Doesn't Balance
  44. The Religious Reversal That Doesn't Make Sense
  45. "What About the Unitarians?"
  46. Are "Real" Catholics as Conservative as Evangelicals?
  47. Does Religion Make You Happier? Yes, But So Does Money
  48. Two Years Later, Opinions on Trans Rights Have Barely Budged
  49. What's Happening with America's Seminaries?
  50. The Pro-Life Democrat Is a Politically Endangered Species
  51. Who Marries Whom? Faith, Partners, and the Unequally Yoked
  52. "I like the IDEA of Religion."
  53. Do the Nones Actually Hate Religion? The data says it's complicated.
  54. White America's Republican Drift
  55. This is Not Simple Generational Replacement
  56. The Myth of the Devout Immigrant
  57. God, Death, and the Right to Choose: A Religious Divide on Assisted Suicide
  58. "I Go to Church a Little Bit"
  59. Politically Neutral, Religiously Intense: What the Data Reveals About Jehovah's Witnesses
  60. Emergency Expenses and American Religion
  61. The Growing Gap in Church Membership
  62. The Fox News Advantage: How Cable News Divides Along Religious and Generational Lines
  63. America Got a Little More Religious. No, Really.
  64. Inertia Still Rules American Religion
  65. Can We Blame the Nones for America's Marriage Crisis?
  66. The Confederate Flag Divides America — But Not How You'd Think
  67. What Pulls Christians Toward Trump: Abortion or Immigration?
  68. The United Church of Christ Is Running Out of People—and Pastors
  69. The Afterlife Isn’t Going Away
  70. The Moral Reasoning Gap in American Christianity
  71. Do People Think About Meaning and Purpose All the Time?
  72. Who is Telling the Truth About American Religion?
  73. Creationism Isn’t as Common as You Think
  74. Religion as a Cultural Identity (Part 2): The Surprising Reality of “Cultural Judaism”
  75. Those Non-Denoms are Just Southern Baptists, Right?
  76. The People Streaming Church Aren’t Who You Think
  77. Everyone Lies About Voting (Even the Religious)
  78. Cultural Jews and Cultural Catholics?
  79. Why Religion, Not Income, Predicts the American Vote
  80. When Are Half Your Members Going to be Dead?
  81. The Political Takeover: Why Ideology, Not Faith, Drives the Culture War
  82. Do Americans Care Who Their Boss Is?
  83. The Generational Collapse of American Religion
  84. The Nones Project: Religious Upbringing
  85. Where the Evangelicals Are (And Where They Aren’t)
  86. How Big is the God Gap on College Campuses?
  87. Are Never Attenders More Secular Today?
  88. Young Mormons Aren’t Blue — They’re Just a Little Less Red
  89. Money and Leadership in the Presbyterian Church in America

2025 115

  1. What the 2024 Election Revealed About Religion in America
  2. Is Christmas a Religious Holiday?
  3. The Most Republican Jobs in America? Start with the Church.
  4. What 12 Denominations Tell Us About American Christianity
  5. The Sharp Decline in Transgender Identification Among Young Adults
  6. The Nones Project: What Do They Believe?
  7. The Post-COVID Plateau of The Episcopal Church
  8. The Bible Says ‘Don’t Work, Don’t Eat.’ But Does That Hold Up in the Data?
  9. The Slow Grind of Change: What the 2024 GSS Tells Us About American Religion
  10. As America Secularizes, Its Soldiers Are Moving the Other Way
  11. A Christmas Discount!
  12. The Assemblies of God in 2024
  13. What's the Difference Between White Evangelicals and White Catholics on Election Day?
  14. The Nones Project: Well Being
  15. Fire Insurance for the Afterlife?
  16. How Big is the Political Divide Between Mainline Clergy and Laity?
  17. Everything You Could Ever Want to Know About Membership and Attendance in the Presbyterian Church in America
  18. More Than Weekly: Understanding America’s Most Devout Religious Attenders
  19. The Nones Project: Marriage
  20. Which Religious Groups Are Most—and Least—Likely to Get Tattoos?
  21. Have We Reached Peak None?
  22. Most Churches Aren’t Growing — What We Can Learn from Those That Are
  23. The Democrats Have a Religion Problem
  24. The Nones Project: Zealous Atheists
  25. Jesus Prayers in Public Schools: Who’s For It and Who’s Against It—And Why It Matters
  26. A Puzzle: Religious Importance, Religious Attendance and Education
  27. How Many Members Should a Church Have? Lessons from the Religion Census
  28. Moral Absolutes or ‘It Depends’: How Americans See Right and Wrong
  29. The Nones Project: Dones
  30. Pews vs. Passports: Who’s Leaving the Country—and Who Isn’t
  31. How Important is the President's Faith?
  32. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Who's Watching Online Church
  33. How Social Issues Are Driving a Wedge Between Young Women and Young Men
  34. The Nones Project: SBNRs
  35. The Most Segregated Hour? Rethinking Race and Religion in America
  36. Religious People Are Happier Than Non-Religious People
  37. Have Clergy Made Any Wage Gains Recently?
  38. Higher Degrees, Higher Devotion? Analyzing Religion by Education and Race
  39. The Nones Project: NiNos
  40. Parenting Isn’t Easy—But Faith Might Help a Little
  41. 2024 Election Post-Mortem: Religion and the Gender Gap
  42. The Remnant: Inside the World of Young Mainline Protestants
  43. Who Embraces Diversity in America—and Who Doesn’t
  44. Do Non-Religious People Actually Hate Religion?
  45. The Culture War’s Quiet Front: Abortion Opinion in 2024
  46. Are The Nones Replacing Religion With Spirituality?
  47. The Many Jobs of a Religious Leader
  48. 2024 Election Post-Mortem: Nothing in Particulars
  49. How Many Nones are Exvangelicals?
  50. My Religion is "Something Else"
  51. The Four Types of Nones
  52. Is Divorce the Next Front in the Culture War?
  53. 2024 Election Post-Mortem: Atheists and Agnostics
  54. A Deep Dive into the Presbyterian Church in America
  55. Three Big Announcements
  56. 2024 Election Post-Mortem: Muslims
  57. Higher Education on Trial: Religion, Politics, and Public Doubt
  58. Election Post-Mortem: Age, Faith and the Vote in 2024
  59. The Nones and the Nurtured: Religious Upbringing and Generational Change
  60. Does Religious Affiliation Make Someone More Resistant to Societal Changes?
  61. Faith Meets the Future: Religion and the Gene Editing Divide
  62. How Distinctive are Evangelicals, really?
  63. What Generation Can We Blame for Religious Decline?
  64. The Apathy Election: Political Engagement Dropped Dramatically in 2024
  65. Is There a Religious Revival Occurring Among Generation Z?
  66. When Church Attendance Influences Political Views (and When It Doesn’t)
  67. A Pope Who Doubts? - The Role of Certainty in the Lives of Catholics
  68. The Political Paradox: Why Never-Attending Christians and Atheists Are Worlds Apart
  69. How Protestant Denominations Have Voted from 2008 to 2024
  70. 2024 Election Post-Mortem: Jews
  71. How Certain Are Clergy of their Faith?
  72. 2024 Election Post-Mortem: Latter-day Saints
  73. 2024 Marks Another Chapter in the SBC’s Long Slide
  74. 2024 Election Post-Mortem: Black Americans, Religion and the Vote
  75. Megachurch Geography: Why America's Largest Churches Thrive Where They Do
  76. Does Education Have the Same Impact on Church Attendance in Europe and the U.S.?
  77. How Many Americans Are Actually Spiritual But Not Religious?
  78. 2024 Election Post-Mortem: Mainline Protestants
  79. How Many Megachurches Are There? Where Are They Located?
  80. The United States is More Religious Than Europe, But By How Much?
  81. Flourishing or Floundering? How Young People See Their Lives
  82. 2024 Election Post-Mortem: Catholics
  83. Are Catholic Converts More Hard Core Than Cradle Catholics?
  84. 2024 Election Post-Mortem: Evangelicals
  85. Belief in an Afterlife is Increasing in the United States
  86. High School Students Are Growing Incredibly Anti-Social
  87. Can We Predict a Christian Conversion?
  88. Religion in 2024: The Plateau Is Real
  89. Do Church Goers Want To Hear More Politics From the Pews?
  90. Which Identity is More Important: Race, Gender, or Religion?
  91. Are There Two Types of Gen Z When It Comes to Religion?
  92. Who are filling up the pews? Highly educated parents.
  93. How Does the Public Feel About Sex Among Teenagers?
  94. The Religiosity of Non-Gender Conforming Americans
  95. Not Enough Pastors? A 'Problem' for the Assemblies of God
  96. Which Religious Traditions are the Most Politically Knowledgeable?
  97. The Truth Isn't Out There: Religion and Belief in Aliens
  98. What Does Religion Look Like At Elite Universities?
  99. What's In a Name? Trends in Non-Denominational Church Branding
  100. Is Distrust Driving the Rise in Non-Denominationalism?
  101. A House Divided: Clergy, Conscience, and Same-Sex Marriage
  102. Why I Can't Tell You How Quakers (or Unitarians) Voted in 2024
  103. Are Young Women Leaving Religion Faster than Young Men?
  104. The Assemblies of God: A Denomination That May Be Growing
  105. Trust the Plan - Does Religion Drive Conspiratorial Thinking?
  106. What Really Happened to Religion in the 1990s?
  107. Are Young Nones Further From Religion Compared to Older Nones?
  108. There's Been a Backlash Against Same-Sex Marriage Among a Growing Group of Christians
  109. The State of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
  110. The Religion and Politics of Students Who Were Homeschooled
  111. Are Americans Especially Distrustful of Religion?
  112. Are There Any Religion Lessons from the 2024 Election?
  113. Non-Denominationalism Is the Strongest Force in American Religion
  114. What Religious Groups See the United States as More Polarized?
  115. Have Views of Marital Fidelity Changed Over Time?

2024 107

  1. What's the Recipe for Loneliness?
  2. The Most Popular Posts of 2024
  3. Evangelicalism, Education, and Race in 2023
  4. Gender Identity, Religion and Political Ideology in 2023
  5. Are There Folks Who Oppose Homosexuality But Support Same-Sex Marriage?
  6. How Many Faculty are Teaching at Seminaries?
  7. What Role Did Evangelicals Play in the 2024 Republican Primary?
  8. What is the Role of the Chaplain in the 21st Century?
  9. Did The Episcopal Church Experience Growth in 2023?
  10. A Christmas Discount!
  11. Are Today's Nones Less Religious Than Nones From the Past?
  12. A Deeper Dive into the Religious Gender Gap
  13. Does Religion Generate Higher Levels of Self-Reported Well Being?
  14. How Did Abortion Ballot Initiatives Impact the Presidential Vote in 2024?
  15. What States Have a Higher Concentration of Clergy?
  16. Would Evangelicals Prefer a United States with No Mainline Protestants?
  17. Are Religious People More Fearful?
  18. How Will the Faithful Vote in 2024?
  19. The Religious and Political Composition of College Campuses
  20. How Do Female Pastors Differ From Their Male Counterparts?
  21. How Much Did Evangelical Identification Shift Between 2020 and 2022?
  22. The Politics of Organized Nones
  23. Does Religion Impact Support for the Death Penalty?
  24. What Religious Groups are The Most Politically Active?
  25. How 40 Protestant Denominations Voted in the Last Four Presidential Elections
  26. The Gender Gap on Issues of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
  27. How Much Is Religion Fading In Other Countries?
  28. 'I'm An Evangelical, But I Rarely Go to Church'
  29. The Religion of America's Young Adults
  30. How Do College Students Feel About Free Speech
  31. Do You Believe in Miracles?
  32. How Do Organized Nones Differ from All Nones?
  33. Are Shrinking Counties Seeing Religious Growth?
  34. The God Gap in American Politics
  35. How Does Religion Influence Decisions About Marriage and Family?
  36. Are People Really Lonely and Miserable?
  37. Where Have Churches Disappeared?
  38. Let's Talk about the Muslim Vote in Michigan
  39. Why Were People Attending Church More (or Less) in 2022 vs 2020?
  40. What About White Evangelicals Who Aren't Conservative?
  41. Who Hasn't Heard About Christian Nationalism?
  42. How Religious is Europe?
  43. The Socioeconomic Status of American Religious Traditions
  44. Is There a Post-Religious Right on the Horizon?
  45. Should Pornography Be Completely Banned?
  46. There Is Almost No 'Liberalizing Religion' in the United States
  47. Geographic Church Planting Strategies: Acts 29 vs ARC
  48. Do Educated People Believe in God More or Less?
  49. My Last Sermon at First Baptist Church
  50. Is It Better If Women Take Care of the Home and Family?
  51. We Asked the Nones a Bunch of Questions About Leaving Religion
  52. Are High Schoolers Using Marijuana Instead of Alcohol/Cigarettes?
  53. Religion in 2022 Compared to 2020
  54. Are Women More Spiritual and Men More Religious?
  55. Biden's Approval Rating Among Religious Groups in 2023
  56. Are Women More Loyal to Their Childhood Religion Than Men?
  57. Did Dobbs Have A Noticeable Impact on Abortion Opinion?
  58. Who is Attending Online Church?
  59. Southern Baptists are More Conservative Than Ever
  60. Is Catholicism Surging Among Younger Folks?
  61. Highly Educated Men Are More Likely to be in Church Than Highly Educated Women
  62. Does Going to Church Keep High School Students from Drinking and Smoking?
  63. The Culture Wars, 2023 Edition
  64. What Does it Mean to be 'Religious'?
  65. What Countries Are Most Involved in Religious Organizations?
  66. Here's the Demographic Formula For Growing Churches
  67. The Nones Have Hit a Ceiling
  68. American Clergy in Colonial America
  69. Catholicism by Generation
  70. The State of the Southern Baptist Convention in 2023
  71. Atheist/Agnostic Republicans?
  72. Cafeteria Catholicism?
  73. "Religion's Important, But I Don't Attend"
  74. The Aftermath of the Schism in the United Methodist Church
  75. Dropping Out Of Everything
  76. Who Believes in the Prosperity Gospel?
  77. Have the Democrats Lost the Black Church?
  78. What Do Southern Baptists Care About?
  79. A Sixty Year History of White Evangelicals and Politics
  80. Are Members of the Clergy Miserable?
  81. Hispanic Evangelicals - A Growing Force?
  82. The Religiosity of High School Seniors, 1976-2022
  83. How Many Atheists Are There in Your State?
  84. How Many People Change Religions in 18 Months?
  85. Which Cities are the Least Religious?
  86. What Predicts Church Growth or Decline?
  87. Are Liberal Christians More Politically Engaged than Conservative One?
  88. How Has Religion Changed Among High School Seniors?
  89. The Data is Clear: People Are Having Less Sex
  90. How Do Americans Feel About In-Vitro Fertilization?
  91. The Rise of the Non-Christian Evangelical
  92. Has Christian Nationalism Intensified or Faded?
  93. Men Have Abandoned Marriage and Parenthood
  94. How Much Does the Average Pastor Make?
  95. The Coming Extinction of the White Christian Democrat
  96. A Year Into the Pandemic, What Impact was Religion Having on Mental Distress?
  97. Which Student Groups Should Get Funded on College Campuses?
  98. Are Non-Denominationals Just Evangelicals Without the Institutional Baggage?
  99. Cultural Evangelical: A State Level Analysis
  100. 'I'm Spiritual, Not Religious' - An Empirical Investigation
  101. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Church Attendance and Voting for Trump
  102. Why It's Really Hard to Be Optimistic About the Mainline
  103. Iowa is Not a Particularly Religious State
  104. Do Evangelicals Care About Climate Change?
  105. Political Ideology, Religious Attendance and Mental Illness
  106. Can You Ever Really Leave Religion Behind?
  107. Religious Democrats and Secular Republicans

2023 82

  1. How Many Evangelicals Are There?
  2. The Most Popular Posts of 2023
  3. The Impact of Sexual Orientation on Religion
  4. What Countries Are the Most Religious? Which Ones Are The Least?
  5. What Christian Colleges Are Growing? Which Ones are Declining?
  6. Are Religious Areas More Charitable?
  7. Black People Are Less Wed to the Democrats
  8. How Weird is The Religious Composition of Harvard's Student Body?
  9. Most Americans Are Still Christians
  10. The Political Puzzle of Never Attenders
  11. A Special Christmas Discount!
  12. How Thankful Are Americans for Their Blessings?
  13. The Myth of the White Catholic Democrat
  14. How Many Weekly Attenders Are There in Major Denominations?
  15. Who is Abandoning the Evangelical Label?
  16. How Many Nones Are There?
  17. The Religious Composition of the Political Parties Over the Last 50 Years
  18. Is Anyone Going to Church More Now Than They Used To?
  19. God and Mammon
  20. Race, Generations and American Religion in 2023
  21. Two Misconceptions About Abortion
  22. Which States Are the Least Religious? Which are the Most?
  23. Secular Jews?
  24. The Catholic Church is In Trouble in Places Where it Used to Dominate
  25. The Rise of Singleness and How Religion Is Impacted
  26. Where Did the Southern Baptist Convention Lose Ground in the Last Decade?
  27. The Culture War is Alive and Well on College Campuses
  28. The State of the Episcopal Church in 2022
  29. How Do Home Schooled College Students Compare to Those From Public Schools?
  30. What's Going on With Religion and Politics in Florida?
  31. Gender, Sexual Orientation and Religion Among American College Students
  32. The Cost of a Seminary Education in 2023
  33. Let's Have a Talk About Education and Religious Attendance
  34. How Do Religious Groups View Joe Biden Right Now?
  35. Church Attendance Used to Drive Up Trust, It Doesn't Anymore
  36. The Politics of Muslims in the 21st Century
  37. Liberals Have Won the Culture War
  38. The Current State of Seminary Education in the United States
  39. Religion is For Older People, Right?
  40. Are There Any Real Differences Between an Atheist and a Never Attending Christian?
  41. Are White Evangelicals Devoted to Fox News? Do Atheists Like MSNBC?
  42. Does Religious Attendance Drive Up Political Participation?
  43. The Nones: Now with More Republicans?
  44. Urban White Evangelicals? Yes, they exist!
  45. Infrequent Church Attenders Were Trump's Base, Right?
  46. Would More Immigration Slow Secularization in the United States?
  47. The Future of American Christianity is Non-Denominational
  48. Does Religion Cause More Problems Than It Solves?
  49. Religion as a Cultural and Political Identity
  50. Four of the Most Dramatic Shifts in American Religion Over the Last 50 Years
  51. What Did American Religion Look Like Before Modern Surveys Began?
  52. Marriage rates are falling. Is the decline of religion to blame?
  53. How Many People Leave Their Childhood Religion?
  54. Are American Cities Really Godless?
  55. Religion Has Become a Luxury Good
  56. Just How Much Do Americans Dislike Atheists?
  57. Women are more religious than men, right?
  58. Should Women Preach? Huge Majorities of Evangelical Think They Should
  59. Just How Bad Is Denominational Decline?
  60. Is Religion Driving Vaccine Refusal? Or Is It Just Partisanship?
  61. How Many Religious Congregations Are in Your County?
  62. Approval For Same Sex Marriage Has Stopped Increasing
  63. Just How Secular is Europe Compared to the United States?
  64. Americans Still Overwhelmingly Believe in God
  65. Given the Rise of the Nones, Why Aren't Democrats Winning Most Elections?
  66. Atheists Just Don't Have Many Kids
  67. No One Participates in Politics More than Atheists
  68. The 2022 Data on the Southern Baptist Convention is Out
  69. What Does Denominational Decline Look Like?
  70. Catholic Mass Attendance Has Fallen by Half
  71. I've Got a New Book Releasing Soon
  72. Did The Election of Donald Trump Drive People from the Pews?
  73. God, Guns, and Graphs
  74. Black Americans Are Just as Likely to be Nones as Other Racial Groups
  75. Trust and Not Believe? Or Believe and Not Trust?
  76. Are The Nones a Coherent Voting Bloc?
  77. Did Religion Dramatically Lose Importance During the Pandemic?
  78. Young Mormons Are Abandoning the GOP
  79. Just How Much Has Religious Attendance Declined?
  80. Abortion Opinion Is Shifting Post Dobbs
  81. White Christians Are Becoming More Republican
  82. What to expect....