Americans may have positive associations with individual churches or pastors. However, thinking of them collectively, U.S. adults no longer offer them the benefit of the doubt.
Americans increasingly don’t trust the church or pastors, as confidence and trust have eroded to historic lows for the institution and its leaders.
Gallup’s most recent annual surveys on Americans’ institutional confidence and honesty ratings for professionals found trust in both the church and pastors reaching their lowest points in the history of the surveys.
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