As part of a continuing surge in Bible sales, sales of scripture were up 11 percent this year over 2024, according to data from Circana, a firm that tracks book sales. This year’s figure includes 2.4 million Bibles sold in September 2025 as part of a surge that followed the assassination of conservative Christian activist […]
A new report from Barna Research finds that “men are significantly outpacing women in church attendance since the pandemic, reversing a longstanding trend in Barna’s decades of polling. The 2025 gender gap is the largest recorded so far (43 percent for men vs. 36 percent among women).” The Barna poll finds that married fathers have […]
The gap between evangelical and Catholic women supporting the Trump presidency is narrowing, writes Heidi Schlumpf in Commonweal magazine (August 29). The much-touted gender gap in support for Trump has actually narrowed, especially among two religious demographic groups: evangelicals and Catholics. While it’s true that “Trump made gains among men of all ages, races, and […]
A new study finds a correlation between online gaming and atheist or agnostic beliefs, but also an association between social media engagement and religious practices like scripture reading and congregational attendance. While there has been a growing body of research on the secularizing effect of the Internet, Baylor University sociologists Jennifer Laderi and Jeremy Uecker […]
While the growing number of Christian yoga practitioners see mystical experiences as part of their practice, they don’t necessarily see the Hindu-based bhakti yoga tradition to be relevant, a new survey finds. Bhakti yoga based on the Bhagavad Gita has been the most prevalent form of yoga in the West, with practitioners of different faiths […]
The latest findings from a survey on the congregational engagement of Christian church attenders in the aftermath of Covid suggest that most attenders have either remained consistently engaged or have increased their worship attendance. The results of the 2024 Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations (EPIC) Attender Survey were based on responses from more than […]
Close to 3 in 10 Americans make use of astrology, tarot cards or fortunetellers at least once a year, though only a small fraction rely on these practices to make major life decisions, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. About 2 in 10 Americans say they engage in these occult activities “just […]
A major new study finds a strong association between religious identity and human flourishing. The Global Flourishing Study (GFS) study, a longitudinal survey across 22 countries, was conducted by Baylor University and Harvard University, with its initial findings presented at a recent conference at the Gallup world headquarters in Washington, which RW attended online. Employing […]
The gender gap in churches is growing, with young men and women differing on social and moral issues. In the Substack newsletter American Storylines, pollster Daniel Cox analyzes the recent 2024 Pew Religious Landscape Survey and finds that more than 6 in 10 (61 percent) young Christian women say abortion should be legal in all […]
Both in the U.S. and the UK, surveys on religion are showing some stability, even an uptick in spiritual and religious interest and involvement in the case of the latter. The Pew Research Center’s latest Religious Landscape Study (RLS) found that after many years of decline, the share of Americans who identify as Christians shows […]
