unchurched

American religious affiliation is in flux according to a new report from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. One finding that we're familiar with here, is that the “unaffiliated” category is growing. The report compares the change in religious affiliations of respondents between their childhood and adulthood, finding that the unaffiliated group has grown from 7% as children to 16% as adults. This unaffiliated category now makes up 16% of American adults, compared with 18% Mainline Protestant, 26% Evangelical, and about 24% Catholic.

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I knew the time would come, but didn't expect it this soon. Nevertheless, we are once again churchless and will remain so this time. It's time for church outside the walls.

Sparing you the boring details, the story of why we left comes down to church walls. It always does. Doesn't it? There are all sorts of walls, many of them we might not even recognize as walls. Some walls keep us out, while others keeep us in. But when those walls hurt your children, and when it was for them that you were doing church in the first place, then it is time move on. There is something inherent in these organizations that leave them primed for abuse. But that's another story.

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