The Poll On Post-COVID Church Attendance
There's been a small stir this week over a new Gallup poll that says church attendance in the United States is lower than it was before the COVID lockdowns . On one hand, this shouldn't be a surprise, as stories have already covered this without the need for Gallup to ask about it again. A Pew Research poll just this past March reported: There are some indications that in-person engagement in religious services has declined slightly since 2019, before the COVID-19 outbreak. The share of all U.S. adults who say they typically attend religious services at least once a month is down modestly but measurably (by 3 percentage points, from 33% to 30%) over that span, and one-in-five Americans say they now attend in person less often than they did before the pandemic. The Gallup results aren't much different, so I'm not sure why anyone bothered. Per the first link, In the Gallup survey, 31 percent of respondents said they have attended church, synagogue, mosque or temp...