Ryan Burge

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Interesting Times · America’s Very Weird Religious Future · 22 Jan 2026 podcast

And now all we've got is really conservative religion and no religion at all.

And there's really no meeting place between the two.

Yeah.

So the rise of the nuns is the number one story.

To me, that's the second biggest story is the rise of the non-denominationals.

They were in the GSS.

And even when the General Social Survey started, it was about 3% of Americans said they were non-denominational in 1972.

And today it's 15% are non-denominational.

Denominationalism is in the decline really across the board.

The only large

Protestant denomination that's growing consistently is the Assemblies of God, which is sort of a Pentecostal evangelical denomination.

And they're doing really well, actually.

But every other denomination, whether it be Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists, Lutherans, they're all significantly smaller today than they were 20 or 30 years ago.

So what the future of American Christianity is going to look, Protestant Christianity is going to look like is very little denominationalism and a whole bunch of non-denominationalism, which from an analytical standpoint is incredibly hard to sort of wrap your head around.

They're evangelical.

I mean, not all of them, but the vast, vast majority are evangelical in their orientation and theology and just practice and all the things that we would call evangelical.

I think the one thing is they're anti-institutional.

You know, they're anti-authority in a lot of ways.

It's like, where does your money go when you put it on the plate?

Well, it goes right here.

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