The data post from Ryan Burge caught my eye — as usual. But one of the comments below the post really got my attention. “Let’s be real, non-denoms are basically Baptists,” the commenter said. This was in response to Burge’s…
Is Distrust Driving the Rise in Non-Denominationalism?
I always tell people I’m not biased against groups like Hindus, lesbians, or vegans. I’m just biased toward big numbers, because it’s easier to do analysis when the sample size is in the thousands – not the dozens. And that’s certainly the…
Don’t forget to count the non-denoms
In all the hand-wringing about the statistical decline of Baptist congregations in America — which follows similar declines before in the mainline Protestant churches — one important shift seldom gets mentioned. That is the rise of the nondenominational church within…