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While the number of American identifying as Christian is on the decline, small churches are attracting young people in particular. Richard Flory, director of research for the Center for Religion and Civic Culture, shares why church networks, rather than denominations, are growing more popular today in this report from Voice of America<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Read more about the church featured in this video and networks in Andrew Johnson’s post, “How Will Church Plants Grow Without Becoming Megachurches?”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":4212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[104,25],"class_list":["post-4209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crcc-in-the-news","tag-andrew-johnson","tag-innovation-and-change"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nVOA: Young Americans Seek Different Church Experience<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/voa-young-americans-seek-different-church-experience\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VOA: Young Americans Seek Different Church Experience - 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