Two years ago, I reported that church attendance was down during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, churches across the country had scrambled to adapt by livestreaming weekend services or meeting socially-distanced and outdoors. Despite these efforts, many who had formerly been connected to churches drifted away:
A study conducted during April and early May, during the height of the U.S. social distancing measures, found that 1 in 3 people who identified as “practicing Christians” was not attending church — meaning tuning in to at least one online service — during the quarantine.
Those early numbers showed that millennials were dropping out at a higher rate than other generations. I found it interesting that one of the generations most familiar with digital routines and technology had become the most disconnected in the era of online church. Those who had “dropped out” reported being more anxious about their lives and more insecure about the future compared to…
