Emma Camp grew up going to church with her family, but she stopped attending as a teenager. “I felt that unless I had a strong sense of literal faith there wasn’t a point,” she tells Yahoo Life. But a few years ago, as an adult, she went back. “I had just moved to a new city,” she says, “and was looking for community.”
Across the country, Christianity is far less prominent than it has been in the past. In 2007, 78% of Americans considered themselves Christian of some denomination, but by 2024 that number had dropped to 62% (worth noting: While the decline has been steep, it appears to be leveling off in recent years). Still, amid an ongoing loneliness epidemic in the nation, many who don’t consider themselves to be religious are now turning to church not necessarily to find God but to build relationships.
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