Total membership in the nation's largest Protestant denomination fell at a historic rate between 2018 and 2019, the Religion News Service website reports today (June 5, 2020).
The Southern Baptist Convention said it had 14.5 million members in 2019, down about 287,655 from the previous year.
Membership dropped 2 percent, the largest single-year drop in more than 100 years.
The decline reflects a larger trend of Americans leaving Christianity at a rapid pace. According to the Pew Research Center, 65 percent of Americans describe themselves as Christians, down 12 percentage points during the past decade.
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