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A teenager lights a candle during a church service at the Lutheran Tikkurila Church in Vantaa, Finland, on April 3, 2024. Alessandro Rampazzo/AFP via Getty Images
A few months ago, the Pew Center Religious Landscape Survey issued a report documenting a slight uptick in the percentage of Americans who identify as Christian, as the decades-long decline among younger Americans identifying as Christians has seemingly stalled.
Timothy S. Goeglein is the vice president of government and external relations at Focus on the Family and the co-author of the new book “What Really Matters: Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Family” (Fidelis, 2026).
