Kansas City Faith Blogger Reports Local Believers In Flux

Houses of worship across the metro confront higher turnover rates and a lower number of faithful altogether.

Here's the overview from KC's foremost scribe on faith & morals . . .

The total religious landscape in the U.S. has been changing in recent decades to the point that at least 25 percent of adult Americans now identify as religiously unaffiliated. American Judaism reflects that. As the Pew Research Center reported in 2020, some 27 percent of American Jews identify as non-observant, or non-religious.

In any case, the reality is that religion in Kansas City is far from static. Houses of worship open, change, move, close. Individuals commit to one path but then change to another or to none at all.

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