Everywhere in Church circles today you hear a lament: our churches are emptying. We’ve lost our youth. This generation no longer knows or understands the classical theological language. We need to announce Jesus again, as if for the first time, but how? The Church is becoming ever more marginalised.
That’s the situation pretty much everywhere within the secularised world today. Why is this happening? Faith as a spent project? The secular world’s adolescent grandiosity before the parent who gave it birth, Judaeo-Christianity? The “buffered self” that philosopher Charles Taylor describes? Affluence? Or is the problem mainly with the churches themselves? Sexual abuse? Cover-up? Poor liturgies? Poor preaching? Churches being too liberal? Churches being too conservative?
