The Unexpected Comeback

It’s a fair assumption — and for about twenty years in America, it looked true. The share of Americans who call themselves Christian fell from 78% in 2007 to 62% today. Then the trend did something nobody predicted. It stopped. Pew Research found the decline has flattened and may have leveled off entirely, holding steady since 2019.

Here’s the real surprise. The generation that was supposed to close the book on faith — Gen Z, the most educated and most online generation in history — is the one quietly reopening it. Young adults now attend church more regularly than older generations, with young men leading the way, and weekly Bible reading among Gen Z jumped from 30% to nearly half in a single year.

A quick word on what this does and doesn’t prove. It doesn’t prove Christianity is true. A belief being popular doesn’t make it correct, and a belief being unpopular doesn’t make it false — truth doesn’t take a vote.

So why mention it? Because if you’ve set this question aside assuming it’s already settled — a dying idea only your grandparents took seriously — that assumption is out of date. People who could believe anything are taking a second look. The only question worth asking is the one this whole site is built on: what’s the best explanation?