Fastest growing religious group in the United States is a group called the Nons, N-O-N-E-S, those with no religious affiliation.

Who are these nuns and what accounts for their religious disaffiliation over the last 30 years?

We answer these questions more with our guest political science and Pastor Ryan Burge

from his updated book called The Nuns. This is part two of our discussion. We talked last

week about his book The Great D. Churching and this is part two of that and we

look forward to our conversation. I'm your host Scott Ray and I'm your co-host Sean Macau.

This is Think Biblically from tablet School of Theology at Biola University.

Ryan, welcome back for part two.

We're looking forward to the discussion.

Thanks so much for having you guys.

Yeah, how did you get so interested in studying the

nuds? I mean you're both you're both a pastor and a political scientist so you've

got a little skin in the game here but there are a lot of political science

you know subjects that you

could have could have focused your research on what was so interesting about

this group the nuns yeah I mean I I got in the Pope I've been in the same church

for 17 years now I started actually when I was in the pulpit I've been in the same church for 17 years and I started

actually when I was in grads my second year in graduate school I took over the

the pulpit of the first Baptist church in Mount Vernon and we had 50 people

when I got there and then five or seven years later we had 30 people and now we have

10 or 12 on a good Sunday. Every real every church I've been a part of is

smaller now than it was when I was there and that might be because I'm a terrible

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