A four-decade, longitudinal study following 350 families and over 3,000 people ... church is necessarily influenced by the conditions of their childhood. Not all adults who stop attending church ...

A new Pew Research Center study offers something different: a survey of 4,729 Americans telling us precisely why they do (or don't) attend ... older people more likely to feel God at church?

Growing numbers of Christians say that they are “done with” attending church. What are their reasons for doing so, and what can churches learn from it? In Leaving Church: What can we learn from those ...

Ten years ago I began attending church ... Why is it that younger people are able to spread their own accounts of their faith more than the other groups? Maybe it is because these people do ...

Still, what’s going on in the South and Midwest is consistent with what happened in the Northeast: People hold onto their politics when they stop ... but do not attend church are overwhelmingly ...

Church attendance in America ... attempts to figure out why so many Americans have left churches in recent years. The authors find that religious abuse and corruption do play roles in pushing ...

"We’re like the mules of the church – that’s what it feels like," she continued. Several studies in AOL.com's article point to the decline of church attendance ... or that people are ...

Recently, Reddit user lowly_shepherd asked, "People who have stopped going to church, what made you stop?" "Religion has ... "When I was 14, I stopped attending when my pastor told me that ...