By Ben Spalink If you only go to church on Easter and Christmas, or if you’ve nearly stopped going to church altogether, you are what the literature calls “de-churched.” You are among nearly forty million people who came from some kind of Christian or Catholic background that have gradually slipped away from church in the last twenty-five years. Perhaps life got busy. Perhaps you couldn’t stand the blatant hypocrisy you saw in church. Perhaps you have gay friends or family and just couldn’t see yourself going to a church that didn’t affirm gay marriage. Or perhaps religion no longer seemed necessary for your life. You decided you had better things you could do with your Sunday mornings.
A great word in season :)