{"id":141783,"date":"2025-12-10T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141783"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:02:13","slug":"prc-religion-holds-steady-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141783","title":{"rendered":"(PRC) Religion Holds Steady in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pew Research Center polling finds that key measures of religiousness are holding steady in the United States, continuing a period of relative stability that began about five years ago. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shares of U.S. adults who identify with Christianity, with another religion, or with no religion have all remained fairly stable in the Center\u2019s latest polling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The percentages of Americans who say they pray every day, that religion is very important in their lives, and that they regularly attend religious services also have held fairly steady since 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recent stability is striking because it comes&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/religion\/2025\/02\/26\/decline-of-christianity-in-the-us-has-slowed-may-have-leveled-off\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">after a prolonged period of religious decline<\/a>. For decades, measures of religious belonging, behaving and believing had been dropping nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/religion\/2025\/12\/08\/religion-holds-steady-in-america\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Pew Research Report Reveals that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Religion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Religion<\/a> in America is Steady<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zv9qEaU1gJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/zv9qEaU1gJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YWA0U5PHrK\">pic.twitter.com\/YWA0U5PHrK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Catholic News World (@catholicnews1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/catholicnews1\/status\/1998881347234926726?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pew Research Center polling finds that key measures of religiousness are holding steady in the United States, continuing a period of relative stability that began about five years ago. &nbsp; The shares of U.S. adults who identify with Christianity, with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141783\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141783"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141788,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141783\/revisions\/141788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}