Survey Shows U.S. Christian Population Stabilizing

Mar 5, 2025

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Julie Byrne

Dr. Julie Byrne, Hofstra University’s Monsignor Thomas Hartman Chair in Catholic Studies and chair of the Department of Religion, was interviewed by Newsday about a survey released by the Pew Research Center that found that the share of Americans identifying as Christian appears to have stabilized after falling for years.



Dr. Byrne said that the stabilization in “Christian adherence might mean, among other things, that Christian churches learned from the prior years’ huge decline not to take for granted its majority-religion status, and that the churches tried new strategies of tone, outreach, and connection that kept the people they already had.
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Professor and Monsignor Thomas Hartman Chair in Catholic Studies

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