When Sarah McCammon was a child, the evangelical church was her world, and the world was on fire. As she writes in her new book, The Exvangelicals, her parents married in 1976, which was, Newsweek ...

Any time there is a movement of metrics within any community, people love to give it a name, much like the Exvangelicals Movement. No, that’s not a typo. These are people who have felt burned, misled ...

The decline of American religion is the most important demographic development of the 21st century. Over the last couple of decades, every aspect of religious life—formal worship, private prayer, ...

In her first book, the NPR political correspondent examines a growing movement away from the rightwing Christian church For Sarah McCammon, “it was really January 6, watching people go into the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The term "exvangelical," a reference to disillusioned evangelicals after Donald Trump commandeered 81% of the white evangelical ...

Leaving a faith community rarely happens all at once; it begins with questions that no longer find a safe place to land. The massive structural exodus from American evangelicalism is practically ...

There is a growing trend of prominent Christian leaders and artists forsaking historic, Christian doctrines and morals—denying the God they used to proclaim. Many are even adopting the designation ...

Evangelicals are an important, and influential, voting bloc for the Republican party, particularly in presidential elections. But NPR’s Sarah McCammon found many Americans are leaving the church and ...