Christian dating in Oklahoma City

All of Oklahoma Everywhere in the USA

Oklahoma is one of the most Protestant states in the country. Statewide, around seven in ten adults identify as Christian, and evangelical Protestants make up close to half of all adults — far above the national picture. The Oklahoma Historical Society notes that residents identify as Southern Baptist roughly seven times more often than Americans generally. Churches of Christ, Methodist, Pentecostal and Holiness traditions are all substantially more common here than elsewhere too.

Those are statewide figures rather than city ones, and Oklahoma City is more urban and more mixed than the state as a whole, so treat them as the backdrop rather than the local reading. Catholic presence arrived largely through immigration and through religious orders running hospitals and schools. Oklahoma City University has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1904, and Oklahoma Christian University was founded in 1950 by members of the Churches of Christ. Christianity among Oklahoma's Native American communities is a long-established strand in its own right.

The city limits cover something like 606 square miles, putting Oklahoma City among the largest in the country by area — but the whole metro holds only about 1.4 million people across seven counties. The result is space rather than congestion, and drives that would be an ordeal in Dallas or Houston are simply a drive here.

Edmond to the north and Norman to the south are the two other anchors, each roughly fifteen to twenty miles from downtown, and either is a perfectly realistic regular trip. The flip side is that two people can both say they live in Oklahoma City and be at opposite ends of a six-hundred-square-mile area, so it is worth naming your part of town.