• Liam Adams, The Tennessean and USA Right now Community: “I used to be least stunned on the decrease percentages of U.S. adults who determine with specific Protestant denominations and with the slight enhance in those that determine as nondenominational evangelical Protestant. I’ve been watching this play out on the bottom stage in my reporting on the Southern Baptist Conference, United Methodist Church and others. This can nearly actually proceed and I count on it to be a dominant story in my ongoing protection of Protestantism within the U.S., which is that of decline and shrinking denominational-affiliated establishments (i.e. workers layoffs, property gross sales).”
3. Any points or traits revealed that you simply need to delve deeper into?
• Tiffany Stanley, Related Press: “I feel there’s extra to be finished on the concept so many People see themselves as religious however not non secular. And I’d like somebody to dig extra into how race, faith and politics intersect within the report.”
• Daniel Silliman, Christianity Right now: “I need to know extra about: The particular solutions that folks gave when requested their non secular affiliation. A number of the ones talked about within the appendix are fascinating! Home church? Exvangelical? Sabbath keeper? I used to be particularly charmed by the parents who gave the situation of their congregation.
• Kelsey Dallas, Deseret Information: “I need to dive extra into how the research has landed with non secular leaders. Are they feeling hopeful? Wired? What numbers caught of their heads?
• Clemente Lisi, Faith Unplugged: “All editors love tales that dig deeper. For me, I feel it’s this anecdotal notion that extra younger males are becoming a member of Orthodoxy and Catholicism. Whereas extra girls attend church in comparison with males, there are traits that present that is altering among the many younger. I’d like to see what different research or a future Pew one will say about this and whether or not it truly is making extra believers out of younger males. Extra importantly, if true, what’s actually driving this?”
• Liam Adams, The Tennessean and USA Right now Community: “In briefly poking across the Catholic-specific information, there was an array of views on main political points and political celebration affiliations. I cowl Catholics lower than I do evangelical denominations, however I’m desperate to discover a approach to cite a few of this information exhibiting variance amongst U.S. Catholics’ political and social views.”
I vastly admire my Godbeat colleagues taking time to share their evaluation, particularly throughout such a busy week.
Learn extra protection of the Pew research from CNN’s Jennifer Agiesta, NPR’s Jason DeRose, the Nationwide Catholic Reporter’s Heidi Schlumpf, the New York Occasions’ Ruth Graham, Faith Information Service’s Fiona André, the Salt Lake Tribune’s Tamarra Kemsley and the Washington Submit’s Emily Guskin.
BOBBY ROSS JR. is Editor-in-Chief of The Christian Chronicle. Ross writes the Weekend Plug-in column for Faith Unplugged, the place this piece initially appeared. Attain him at [email protected].
