A recent critique of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission evinces the decline in Protestant institutions, which is bad news for America.
Nearly all U.S. Protestant denominations are declining, conservative and liberal, though the liberal ones are declining much faster, as American Christianity becomes increasingly nondenominational or post denominational. It’s hard to find people under age 60, even in denominations, who have strong personal denominational institutional commitments.
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) remains by far the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, with just under 13 million members, having declined from its height of 16 million over 20 years ago. United Methodism, which once exceeded the SBC, is now just over 4 million.
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