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Deconstructing Church
This past winter, I signed up for a subscription to The New York Times, mainly because I found the writing thought-provoking, relevant, and intelligent. I didn’t feel like the views of the writers were being pushed down my throat, and I thought the stories provided necessary insights from both sides of an issue. It was a refreshing deviation from the media I had previously been consuming.
Recently, I’ve been consumed by the essays written by Jessica Grose, a journalist and novelist who writes on family, culture, and politics. She’s written a great deal of pieces about the “Great Migration” away from church, and how the landscape of American religion has drastically changed in the past few years. This fascinates me because, as a Christian, it’s something I’m both baffled by and familiar with.
My migration away from church (Maybe migration is the wrong word, since my religious examinations isn’t so much about an exodus as it is an improvement plan.) has never made me question my faith in God, or question the validity of the teachings of Jesus Christ. Instead, it has made me call into question the teachings, writings, and traditions handed down through generations by fallible men so that the American Christian tradition has somehow morphed into a monstrosity of unwavering loyalty to an entity that mixes politics and religion to such a degree that you can’t tell where one ends and…
