Church attendance has dropped lower in the United States than it was in the four years before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new Gallup survey.

In the latest polls, 31% of the respondents say they had attended services in a church, synagogue, mosque, or temple during the past seven days, and in Gallup’s polls from 2020 to May 1-24, 2023, the average was 30% …

But in the years before the pandemic, an average of 34% of the respondents said they had attended services in the past week.

[Isn’t that around the margin of error? I’m not sure this shows anything more than church attendance *rebounding* nearly completely after the shutdowns in the pandemic. — Ed]