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Charles Taylor’s work. I was aware of his book A Secular Age
Moral Ecosystems: My Big Idea
From World War II all the way to the mid-1990s, church membership among adults was nearly always above 70 percent.
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
They have the lowest rate of marriage of any group, at 54 percent. Conversely, they have the highest rates of singleness (20%), divorce (17%), and widowhood (10%).
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
John Henry Newman,
Joseph Bottum • An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
Despite claims that conservative, evangelical churches had found the secret to growth, there is now sufficient evidence that the primary reason conservative churches grew was defections from mainline churches. The conservative Protestant churches have experienced their own unraveling tsunami, just a little later.