Barna just published a report targeting Gen Z in America based on a survey of two thousand adults and teens from 13 to 24, taken in 2023 …

• 38% of Gen Z women (18-24) and 32% of men identify as atheist or agnostic or have no faith
• 47% of all Gen Z say they believe in Jesus as the only way to God.
• 58% of Gen Z women prayed in the past week, much lower than the 63% of younger teen girls and over 70% of teen boys.
• 31% of Gen Z women (18-24) read the Bible in the last week compared to 41% across all other Gen Z groups.
• Only 30% of Gen Z women (18-24) attended church in the last week, the lowest demographic group in the survey.

Pew Research just released a report based on a broad swath of 9,544 Americans in February and 8,937 in May of 2025 …

• 31% of Americans said that “religion was gaining influence in the country,” up from 18% a year ago.
• Gains were across political lines (at least 10% both for Republicans and Democrats) and every age category.
• Jewish Americans (44%), followed by atheists (38%), white evangelicals (36%), Catholics (27%), and Black Protestants (26%), were most likely to say religion’s influence was rising.
• 59% of Americans have a net-positive view of religion’s role in society, up from 49% in 2022. Twenty percent have a negative view, while 21% are neutral.
• 78% of Republicans vs. 40% of Democrats held a positive view of religion in society.
• 71% of those over 65 vs. 46% of those under 30 years old held a positive view of religion in society.
• 58% of Americans felt that their religious views were at odds with mainstream culture, up from 42% on 2020.
• 29% of Christians said being patriotic was essential to their faith, while 47% said it was important but not essential.
• 48% of Americans believed that many faiths may be true, while 26% said only one faith tradition is true.

Conclusion

One can draw their own conclusions from the data above. However, note that the first survey from Barna was taken in 2023 (but just reported publicly) as compared to the second survey taken in the first half of 2025. Further, the focus of the first was on Gen Z women, and the second was a broader view of Americans in general. Finally, these percentages represent only indications of societal trends since both Pew and Barna have a very broad view of what a “Christian” is … far outside the views of this publication (BCW). To be specific, “Pew Research lists Latter-day Saints among ‘All Christians,’ along with Protestants, Roman Catholics, Orthodox, and Jehovah’s Witnesses.” Barna holds to a tighter definition; however, they do not always adequately qualify their self-identified respondents.