Every year, an increasing number of millions of Americans attend church for the last time, and for a myriad of reasons, are never compelled to go back.
Scott Thumma, who co-authored "Recent Shifts in America’s Largest Protestant Churches: Megachurches 2015 Report,"a study released this week highlighting changes in U.S. megachurches, will be the guest panelist for Saturday's Coffee Talk.
And so, as a Catholic, the 2014 Pew study on America’s religious landscape, while interesting and informative in a certain respect, wasn’t terribly troubling to me on the whole.
What catches my attention is the fact that propel aren’t abandoning their belief in a higher power, just the brick-and-mortar institutions they grew up in.