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Aug 1, 2018 · About 2 out of 3 American adults who regularly attend church or other religious services say they go for their kids, for personal comfort, or to become a better person. The most important reason...
- Church Attendance Has Fallen During The Pandemic
- Most Churches Are (and Are Not) Back to Normal
- Regular Churchgoers Are Still (Mostly) Regular
- Certain Groups Are More Likely to Have Quit Attending
This probably comes as no surprise to pastors and church leaders, but fewer people regularly attend church now than prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to analysis from the Institute of Family Studies(IFS). In 2019, 34% of Americans attended a religious service at least once or twice a month. That fell to 31% in 2020 and 28% in 2021. The decl...
By September 2021, 98% of churches had returned to in-person worship services, according to Lifeway Research. Yet the same study found that the average pastor saw 73% of their church members in person on Sunday mornings. In other words, more than 1 in 4 pre-COVID churchgoers are still missing. That is an improvement from early 2021 when churches we...
A recent study from Grey Matter found evangelicals who attended church at least monthly prior to the pandemic where less likely to make the choice to stop attending during the pandemiccompared to those who attended less frequently. Only 11% of at least monthly churchgoers made the decision to stop attending in-person services even if their church w...
Perhaps unsurprisingly due to increased health risks, adults who are 65 and older are much less likely to attend at least monthly now (32%) than before the pandemic (41%), according to the IFS analysis. The largest age demographic drop, however, happened among young adults. In 2019, 36% of 18- to 34-year-olds attended church at least once or twice ...
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Aug 1, 2018 · A new Pew Research Center survey finds that the main reason people regularly go to church, synagogue, mosque or another house of worship is an obvious one: to feel closer to God. But the things that keep people away from religious services are more complicated.
Apr 7, 2024 · There is no shortage of valid critique of churches in America—both for their internal problems and how they address external challenges in wider society. If your media diet leans one direction, stories of racism, misogyny, clergy abuse, and political syncretism are ubiquitous.
20% of Americans attend church every week ; 41% of Americans are in monthly church attendance or more ; 57% of Americans are seldom or never in religious service attendance ; Regular church attendance has steadily declined since the turn of the century (Gallup and Pew Research Center)
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Apr 10, 2018 · New research sheds interesting light on who is attending church in America. Is church attendance growing or declining? A different sort of research paints quite a disparate picture of how many Americans attend a local church on any given Sunday.
