Thank you, as always, for your incredibly detailed look at the complicated cross-section of Americans and their religious faith.
I can’t say I’m at all surprised by any of it. But I do appreciate your important notice of two things:
1. The unaffiliated are rising.
2. Team Blue is still majority Christian,albeit in a complicated and coalitional way.
As I’ve written before, that second point often gets lost in a lot of the cultural conversation, and lament over the rise of religious nationalism and the ascendancy of deeply conservative evangelicalism.
I find myself, as a pastor, deeply concerned about all those become “unaffiliated” from a former evangelical position. The loss of cultural community, core beliefs, and real-world relationships has to be significant…and has to be a factor in the growing mistrust among, frankly, everyone.
I’m not sure what the way out is all the time…but I always appreciate your careful approach to it all
Well, there was a wee bit of good news in that latest data. Good to know most folks agree he's what he is. (trying real hard to be polite here)
Thank you, as always, for your incredibly detailed look at the complicated cross-section of Americans and their religious faith.
I can’t say I’m at all surprised by any of it. But I do appreciate your important notice of two things:
1. The unaffiliated are rising.
2. Team Blue is still majority Christian,albeit in a complicated and coalitional way.
As I’ve written before, that second point often gets lost in a lot of the cultural conversation, and lament over the rise of religious nationalism and the ascendancy of deeply conservative evangelicalism.
I find myself, as a pastor, deeply concerned about all those become “unaffiliated” from a former evangelical position. The loss of cultural community, core beliefs, and real-world relationships has to be significant…and has to be a factor in the growing mistrust among, frankly, everyone.
I’m not sure what the way out is all the time…but I always appreciate your careful approach to it all