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The de-churched are the fastest growing segment, presently one-third of the population.

By generation, the baby boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) are dechurching in larger numbers as more than 35 percent of the boomers living today have stopped attending church. This is about twice the size of millennials (between 17% and 25%), which is not a surprise as more baby boomers went to church in the first place, which gives them

One of the most influential books about American religion in the past five decades was Why Conservative Churches Are Growing, by Dean M. Kelley, first published in 1972.

By 2012, however, a poll by the Pew Forum discovered that nearly 20 percent (i.e. one in five) of Americans checked “none” or no religious affiliation. One-third of adults under the age of thirty are religiously unaffiliated.

the Barna Group, a prominent research company, went to every state in the US and asked young non-Christians what their perceptions of Christians were. What they found was heartbreaking. The top three answers were: (1) anti-gay, (2) judgmental, (3) hypocritical.

As you might expect, the data show some striking generational differences when it comes to secularization, suggesting we should expect a continued shift away from a “Christian nation” in the years to come. The pattern is indisputable: The younger the generation, the more post-Christian it is. Nearly half (48 percent) of Mosaics qualify as