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Life as a Leaver

By Anna Scott On January 26, 2011 · 21 Comments · In Religion

Evangelicals are belatedly grappling with how to minister to the young skeptics they are producing, but they still don’t understand why sticking with the church has become so prohibitive. Anna Scott describes the overwhelming, disheartening effort involved in not only believing in the midst of deep suffering, but in finding a Christian identity in a [...]

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Parsing Christianity Today's "New Apostates" Story

By David Sessions On November 22, 2010 · 7 Comments · In Religion

Drew Dyck, author of Generation Ex-Christian: Why Young Adults Are Leaving the Faith and How to Bring Them Back, has a cover story in the latest issue of Christianity Today on what the magazine’s cover line obnoxiously calls “the new apostates.” It’s divided, presumably like his book, into a [...]

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The Hard Work of Faith

By David Sessions On November 19, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Religion

I’ve written a post about religious doubt for my friend Jason Boyett’s blog, O Me of Little Faith. A little preview:

Over the past few years of meeting, reading, and interviewing Christian doubters, I’ve come to a few generalizations about them: they tend to have had fundamentalist upbringings, had bad experiences with [...]

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