The case
Why does FFCNation need to exist?
Because the foundations of American life are quietly giving way.
Across America, the institutions and relationships that sustain faith, family, community, and a shared love of country are under increasing strain. Fewer people are anchored in belief, fewer households stay intact, and fewer neighbors know one another well enough to be counted on.
The cost is not abstract. It reaches our children first — in weakened faith, unstable family bonds, and a loss of moral direction that no institution can supply later. FFCNation exists because these foundations can be rebuilt, starting where they always have: in the home.
01
It starts at home.
No policy reaches a child the way a present mother and father do. The household is the first and most durable institution.
02
Belief precedes belonging.
People who are anchored in something larger than themselves are the ones who show up for a neighbor, a school, a town.
03
A nation is the sum of its households.
Civic strength is not handed down from Washington. It is accumulated, house by house, and it can be rebuilt the same way.
But this isn't a feeling. It's measurable.
Four opportunity zones
Faith, family, community and nation — measured against public research. Toggle series and hover for exact figures.
Pew Research Center
Faith — Influence a relationship with Jesus Christ
62%
Christian identification (2023–24)
75% in 2011 → 63% in 2021 → 62% in 2023–24.
29%
Religiously unaffiliated (2023–24)
29% of U.S. adults describe themselves as atheist, agnostic, or "nothing in particular" — essentially unchanged from 2021.
35–54%
Modeled 2070 scenarios — not observed
Pew's projections model a Christian share between 35% and 54% by 2070 depending on assumptions about religious switching. These are scenarios, not measurements.
Christian identification vs. religiously unaffiliated
Observed share of U.S. adults (%), 2011–2024: 75% in 2011, 63% in 2021, and 62% in the 2023–24 Religious Landscape Study. Tap a legend chip to isolate a line; hover a point for exact values.
Modeled scenarios — not observed data
Pew also models what the U.S. religious composition could look like in 2070 under different assumptions about religious switching. These are projections, not measurements, and are kept off the trend line above.
35%
Christian by 2070 (modeled)
Switching continues at recent rates · 52% unaffiliated
54%
Christian by 2070 (modeled)
Switching stops entirely · 34% unaffiliated
- Source
- Pew Research Center
- Dataset
- Religious Landscape Study & Religious Composition Projections
- Data vintage
- 2011–2024 observed; 2070 modeledPublished 2022, 2025
About this data
- Observed values come from Pew's telephone and National Public Opinion Reference Survey estimates (2011, 2021) and the 2023–24 Religious Landscape Study (fielded July 2023 – March 2024).
- Pew reports that the decline in the Christian share has slowed and may have leveled off since about 2019; the 2021 and 2023–24 readings are close enough that they should be read as broadly stable, not as continued sharp decline.
- The 2070 figures are modeled scenarios, not measurements. They bracket Pew's projections under different assumptions about religious switching. They are shown separately and must not be read as an observed trend line.
The data describes the problem. Your household is where the answer starts.