Sublime

Peace, Walter Brueggemann

from 1937 to the mid-1980s about 70 percent of Americans claimed to be a member of a church, synagogue, or mosque. (That number has fallen to less than half—47 percent—in recent years.)

Churchgoing Is Losing Traction Percentage of all US adults

Between 2020 and 2021, the SBC lost nearly 410,000 members. That’s the largest single-year loss in the 170 years of the Southern Baptist Convention.

exvangelicals are 82 percent white, 13 percent Black, and 2 percent Hispanic. Most remarkably, they are 65 percent female and only 35 percent male. Their average age right now is 54 years old (1969 birth year), and on average they dechurched twenty years ago (2003).

Accounts of the battles over the SBC commonly focus on the question of biblical inerrancy, but the battle over inerrancy was in part a proxy fight over gender.

In another denominational survey taken in 2006, researchers found that only 18 percent of Presbyterian Church (USA) members read the Bible “almost weekly.”

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