It will come as no surprise to anyone paying even a little bit of attention to the news that the latest numbers on Americans’ religious participation are down. Again.
The long, steep rise in the “nones,” Americans who don’t profess any spiritual beliefs, has been one of the big shifts in American politics and culture in the past 20 years.
Chris Stirewalt is a contributing writer for The Dispatch, the politics editor for The Hill and NewsNation, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, co-host of the Ink Stained Wretches podcast, and author of Broken News, a book on media and politics.
