Why Christianity Is Dying Quietly

Christianity Isn’t Under Attack, It’s Quietly Failing—and the People Who Study Religion for a Living Aren’t Pretending Otherwise

The decline of Christianity is boring. That’s perhaps the part believers hate the most.

There’s no persecution story to tell. No lions. No tyrants. No brave martyrs standing tall while the world tries to silence them. Christianity isn’t being hunted. It’s being left behind. That doesn’t make for a heroic narrative, but it matches the evidence.

For most of…