Ryan Burge

And people don't realize like even like the gender gap thing among Gen Z, like mathematically is really hard to parse because you're cutting a sample from everyone to just Gen Z and then you're cutting it in half again between men and women.

So you're talking about a subgroup of a subgroup, and then to see a change there that's statistically significant would take a sample size that was so large, we can't collect samples that large.

So all these anecdotes are interesting, but this idea that young people are coming back to church in mass is just not supported by any data that I've ever looked at.

But the data that says that, you know, boomers are saying they're Christians, that number has absolutely, you know, the share of boomers who are Christians has risen significantly in

the last couple of years.

So there is evidence that boomers are sort of leading this pause right now.

But again, they're not young, 60 to 80 years old right now.

And as they are the thing that we're all waiting on in American religious demography right now, you know, to see when they start, you know, dying in large numbers, things are going to move really quickly.

And this whole narrative about revival is going to go away very quickly in the next 10 or 15 years.

Uh, yeah.

So there's a, there's a thing in American evangelicalism called non-denominationalism.

And for those of you don't live in this evangelical world, these are the churches you drive by that look like factories or like office buildings.

They're called like the journey or the ramp or the bridge or life church is one of my favorites called I heart church.

That's literally their legal name is I heart church.

There's one called enjoy church in St.

Louis.

I drive by all the time.

Those non-denominationals were a rounding error in American Christianity 50 years ago.

Like 3% of Americans were non-denominational 50 years ago.

And now 14% of all Americans are non-denominational.