Ryan Burge
Political scientist and Baptist pastor; writes Graphs about Religion, charting American religious life from survey data.
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- Parents and Adult Children Aren't Fighting as Much as TikTok Thinks 17 Sept 2026 Across religious traditions, kids and parents mostly get along — but who they are religiously shapes how connected they actually feel
- The Religious Behavior Index: How Engaged Are Americans, Really? 14 Sept 2026 And I've built a quiz to tell you how religiously active you are!
- Who Do You Talk to When You’re Struggling? 10 Sept 2026 Religion and politics shape whether Americans turn to a therapist, a pastor, or someone closer to home.
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- Freedom for the Thought That We Hate 7 Sept 2026 What 68,000 college students think about shouting down, blocking, and silencing campus speakers
- The Two Dimensions of Religious Belief in America 3 Sept 2026 Some people believe in hell and creationism. Others just feel connected to something larger. Most Americans are somewhere in between.
- When Do We Become the Person We Ought to Be? 31 Aug 2026 A new survey explores how Americans judge their own moral character—and how that changes with age.
- How Well Do We Actually Know American Religion? 27 Aug 2026 What happens when you check two major religion surveys against each other
- Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids? 24 Aug 2026 Or, why the Duggars really are an outlier.
- Belief Isn't Dying, It's Just Getting Less Certain 20 Aug 2026 New data from Pew's Religious Landscape Study shows young Americans are less certain God exists — but very few are becoming atheists
- Which Racial Group Is the Most Religious? 17 Aug 2026 Belief, behavior, belonging — every measure points the same direction.
- So You Want Your Child to Keep the Faith? 13 Aug 2026 There's No Combination of Factors That Guarantees a Religious Adult
- Finance Majors Go to Church. English Majors Don't 10 Aug 2026 The Stereotypes About Which Majors Are Religious and Conservative Turn Out to Be Mostly True
- The LDS Church Has a Retention Problem 6 Aug 2026 Defection is rampant, and it doesn't matter how they were raised
- Where Does Alcoholics Anonymous Go When the Churches Close? 3 Aug 2026 One third of those meetings are happening in houses of worship, that may be a problem as faith declines.
- Mainline Clergy Are Different — And It's Not Because of Who They Are 30 Jul 2026 Controlling for demographics doesn't make the clergy gap disappear. If anything, it makes it more interesting
- Three Things You're Getting Wrong About Religion Data 27 Jul 2026 A rant from a guy who's been making graphs about it for ten years
- The Socializing Power of the Pew: How Church Closes the Education Gap 23 Jul 2026 In an era of civic withdrawal, houses of worship are doing disproportionate social work for those who need it most
- The Conformity Gap: What American Catholics Actually Believe and Practice 20 Jul 2026 Data From the American Catholic Laity Poll Reveals a Deeply Individualistic Faith
- The First Wave Left with Conviction. The Second Wave Just Drifted 16 Jul 2026 How political identity once drove Americans out of Christianity—and why that's no longer true
- Built for a Church That No Longer Exists 13 Jul 2026 The Archdiocese of Detroit is running out of priests, parishioners, and time
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Religion barely explains how many children an American family has.
Yes, religion does seem to have an impact on the decision about the number of kids a family will have, but it’s a very minor difference.
Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids? Said 24 Aug 2026
The widest religious gap in American family size is about half a child.
Comparing evangelicals to atheists and agnostics – the widest religious contrast the data offers – and controlling for age, race, education, and sex, the gap is about 0.6 children.
Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids? Said 24 Aug 2026
A religion cannot revive itself by encouraging its members to have more children.
Embracing an approach to religious renewal by encouraging fertility doesn’t seem like a strategy that will move the needle in a significant way.
Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids? Said 24 Aug 2026
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American family size has barely changed across three generations of parents; what has grown is the share who stop at one child.
Among the Silent Generation (born 1925–1945), only 15% of parents had a single child. It was 22% of Boomers and 27% of Generation X.
Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids? Said 24 Aug 2026
American conservatives are not out-reproducing liberals to any degree that would change the country.
So, yeah, there’s a substantive difference there, but it’s not like Republicans are just outbreeding Democrats on a massive scale.
Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids? Said 24 Aug 2026
Americans have largely stopped belonging to religions and attending services without becoming non-believers.
The United States may no longer be a country of people widely engaging in religious behavior or religious belonging. But it certainly has a whole bunch of religious believers.
Belief Isn't Dying, It's Just Getting Less Certain Said 20 Aug 2026
Confident non-belief is rare in America: for every person sure God does not exist, about six are sure one does.
Said another way, for every person who is pretty sure that God doesn’t exist, there are six who are fairly certain of the existence of a Higher Power. Non-believers are statistically rare.
Belief Isn't Dying, It's Just Getting Less Certain Said 20 Aug 2026
Younger Americans have not swapped belief in God for atheism; they have moved from certain belief to uncertain belief.
Which means that they aren’t sliding all the way to the other side of the spectrum. Instead, they are just moving one level down.
Belief Isn't Dying, It's Just Getting Less Certain Said 20 Aug 2026
It is not true that young American liberals are atheists.
So, it’s just not empirically true that younger liberals are atheists — the data clearly says that’s not true for 70% of them.
Belief Isn't Dying, It's Just Getting Less Certain Said 20 Aug 2026
Certainty about God is eroding at the same rate on the left and the right, and only the starting level differs.
the drop in certain belief is the same size for both liberals and conservatives. It’s 15 percentage points when comparing the oldest respondents to the youngest.
Belief Isn't Dying, It's Just Getting Less Certain Said 20 Aug 2026
The growth of the religiously unaffiliated in America has stopped and gone into reverse.
There’s clearly been a numerical decline in the nones. That seems pretty hard to ignore now, and it’s showing up in multiple data sources.
America Got a Little More Religious. No, Really. Said 28 Mar 2026
Most Americans who report no religious affiliation are not atheists or agnostics.
The first thing that I always point out with this graph is that most nones are not atheists or agnostics.
America Got a Little More Religious. No, Really. Said 28 Mar 2026
A statistically significant change is not the same as an important one, and survey data cannot tell you which it is.
Whether that decline matters is a different question — and one the data alone can’t answer.
America Got a Little More Religious. No, Really. Said 28 Mar 2026
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From one piece Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids? 5 beliefs · graphsaboutreligion.com
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American conservatives are not out-reproducing liberals to any degree that would change the country.Their words
So, yeah, there’s a substantive difference there, but it’s not like Republicans are just outbreeding Democrats on a massive scale.
Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com
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Among the Silent Generation (born 1925–1945), only 15% of parents had a single child. It was 22% of Boomers and 27% of Generation X.
Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com
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Their words
Embracing an approach to religious renewal by encouraging fertility doesn’t seem like a strategy that will move the needle in a significant way.
Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com
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Comparing evangelicals to atheists and agnostics – the widest religious contrast the data offers – and controlling for age, race, education, and sex, the gap is about 0.6 children.
Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com
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Yes, religion does seem to have an impact on the decision about the number of kids a family will have, but it’s a very minor difference.
Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com
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From one piece Belief Isn't Dying, It's Just Getting Less Certain 5 beliefs · graphsaboutreligion.com
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Certainty about God is eroding at the same rate on the left and the right, and only the starting level differs.Their words
the drop in certain belief is the same size for both liberals and conservatives. It’s 15 percentage points when comparing the oldest respondents to the youngest.
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Their words
So, it’s just not empirically true that younger liberals are atheists — the data clearly says that’s not true for 70% of them.
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Which means that they aren’t sliding all the way to the other side of the spectrum. Instead, they are just moving one level down.
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Confident non-belief is rare in America: for every person sure God does not exist, about six are sure one does.Their words
Said another way, for every person who is pretty sure that God doesn’t exist, there are six who are fairly certain of the existence of a Higher Power. Non-believers are statistically rare.
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Americans have largely stopped belonging to religions and attending services without becoming non-believers.Their words
The United States may no longer be a country of people widely engaging in religious behavior or religious belonging. But it certainly has a whole bunch of religious believers.
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