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Analysis: The bigger factor behind the SBC’s decline isn’t the struggle to gain new converts; it’s keeping their own.

The 2018 General Social Survey reports American evangelicals holding steady amid growth of the unaffiliated—and a surprising uptick for mainline Protestants.

How political divides impact religious affiliation and attendance.

According to sociology’s top survey, black and white evangelicals have more in common than politics conveys.

Born-again believers have kept the faith over four decades, while most religious switching has been between mainline Protestants and the “nones.”

Research shows 1 in 6 US Christians changed their religious affiliation over a four-year span, with nondenominational worshipers leading the way.

Americans who identify as agnostic or “nothing in particular” are four times more likely to change their religious affiliation than Protestants or Catholics.