The End of Christianity in America?  

StaffAugust 09, 2010 

Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah has written an inciteful piece in response to a Newsweek article, written in 2009, asserting that Christianity in America is on the decline and that ultimately, Christianity will be no more in America.  Dr. Rah has his own thoughts on this matter.  Here's an except from his article:

As sociologist R. Stephen Warner points out, "What many people have not heard...and need to hear is that the great majority of the newcomers are Christians... This means that the new immigrants represent not the de-Christianization of American society but the de-Europeanization of American Christianity." Contrary to popular opinion, the Church is not dying in America; it is alive and well, but it is alive and well among the immigrant and ethnic minority communities and not among the majority white churches in the United States. As we enter into a new era for American Christianity, we may indeed identify this era as a post-Western, post-white American Christianity. But we may also assert that this development may actually be the salvation of American Christianity rather than the decline and demise of American Christianity.
 

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