Another Easter, another survey showing religion’s recent ebb: This one is from Gallup, confirming a deepening of the 21st-century decline in church attendance.
The kind of Christian practice that’s likely to endure and thrive as loosely affiliated church members fall away isn’t the kind we associate with the flood tide of American Christianity 60 years ago.
So let’s try to imagine how these trends might shape American religion a generation hence.
Clearly the old order of Protestant denominationalism, Methodists and Presbyterians and Episcopalians clustering around the city green, no longer defines our religious life.
How might an American in 2050 describe the country’s key religious groups?
Persons:
that’s, let’s, denominationalism
Organizations:
Gallup
Locations:
secularism’s