{"id":31754,"date":"2022-09-10T15:42:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T20:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/1-in-3-teens-say-theyre-religiously-unaffiliated\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T15:42:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T20:42:47","slug":"1-in-3-teens-say-theyre-religiously-unaffiliated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/1-in-3-teens-say-theyre-religiously-unaffiliated\/","title":{"rendered":"1 in 3 Teens Say They\u2019re Religiously Unaffiliated"},"content":{"rendered":"
Blake Barlow photo – Unsplash <\/p>\n

By Aaron Earls<\/em><\/p>\n

The majority of teenagers continue to say they\u2019re Christian, but the religiously unaffiliated outnumber both Catholics and evangelicals individually among teens.<\/p>\n

According to a new study from Pew Research on the religious lives of teenagers, 32% of American teens say they are religiously unaffiliated, following the growth of \u201cnones\u201d among adults.<\/p>\n

More than 3 in 5 teenagers (63%) identify as a Christian. That\u2019s similar to the 65% of American adults overall who say they\u2019re Christian in other Pew Research studies.<\/p>\n

Slightly more than 1 in 3 teens (36%) say they\u2019re a Protestant Christian, while 24% identify as a Catholic.<\/p>\n

Within Protestantism, 21% of all teens are evangelical, 9% say they\u2019re mainline, and 6% are part of the historically black Protestant tradition.<\/p>\n

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Teenagers often shift their religious identification as they become young adults.<\/p>\n

A Lifeway Research study found 66% of those who attend church regularly as a teenager stop attending for at least one year as a young adult.<\/p>\n

Among those who dropped out between the ages of 18 and 22, only 31% say they now attend church regularly.<\/p>\n

Two in 5 former drop outs (39%) attend once or month or less, while 29% say they do not currently attend church at all.<\/p>\n

In Pew Research\u2019s most recent Religious Landscape Study in 2014, evangelical Protestants were among the gainers in regard to religious switching. For every one person who left evangelicalism, 1.2 joined.<\/p>\n

Among the unaffiliated, however, for every one person to leave, 4.2 took their place.<\/p>\n

Yet, there is statistical encouragement for churches seeking to reach the growing number of religiously unaffiliated teenagers.<\/p>\n

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Almost half of Americans (47%) who were raised with no religion eventually find some kind of faith.<\/p>\n

One in 5 nones (19%) become evangelical Protestants, 17% join another Christian tradition, and 10% become part of a non-Christian faith.<\/p>\n

Among those raised evangelicals, 35% change their religion. Around 1 in 6 (16%) switch to a different Christian tradition, 15% become religiously unaffiliated, and 10% adopt a non-Christian faith.<\/p>\n

But among millennials, those raised unaffiliated are slightly more likely to remain that way than those raised evangelical Protestant (67% to 61%).<\/p>\n

AARON EARLS (@WardrobeDoor)<\/strong> is online editor of <\/em>Facts & Trends.<\/p>\n

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