Have 8 Million Millennials Really Given Up on Christianity?

Or will those born in the 1980s follow the evangelical rebound of Generation X?

Researchers recently took second looks at the perennial question of whether evangelicals are losing younger generations.

Sociologist Brad Wright examined religious affiliation by age cohort via the General Social Survey. He did that millennials born in the 1980s have shown a steep drop in evangelical affiliation unlike Americans born in the 1940s and 1950s, who steadily increased in evangelical affiliation as they got older.

But he also found that millennials appear to be following a similar rebound trajectory to Americans born in the 1970s, who dropped steeply in evangelical affiliation as twentysomethings (from approximately 27% to 21%), but returned to almost the same starting level of affiliation by their 40s. Read more