Okay, I'm doing it, a close look at that Russell Moore piece. It starts with a bold claim as a title, "Why the Church Is Losing the Next Generation" which promises he's going to do it, he's going to give us THE answer.
"Almost everyone in the world of American religion has spent the last couple of weeks thinking through what Gallup just revealed: that, for the first time since they’ve been surveying the topic, less than half the country belongs to a church of any kind."
"My first thought was grief. But what came after that was a strange sort of almost survivor’s guilt."
"When I was fifteen years old, I considered suicide—and it was because I didn’t want to lose my religion. "
"When I was fifteen years old, I considered suicide—and it was because I didn’t want to lose my religion. "
Survivor's guilt is an interesting framing here. Because he seems to be talking about "surviving" as a member of the church as much as he's talking about "surviving" as a human.
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