Dean Chris Lash | Is the American Church Dying? | Big If True (8.28.23)

We welcome you all back to a new school year as we kick off with our new series, Big If True, as our Dean Chris Lash shares with us the state of the Church in the US and the Parable of the Sower.

Source material:

• Ben Stuart, On the state of modern Christianity, sermon
• Gordon Conwell, Christianity in a global context, report:
• Philip Jenkins, The New Christendom
• Rebekah McLaughlin, Confronting Christianity
• Rebekah McLaughlin, The Secular Creed
•  Roger Olson, The Story of Christian Theology
• Pew Research, Why people with no religion are projected to decline as a share of the world’s population
• Pew Research, The Future of World Religions, study
• Pew-Templeton, The Future of World Relgions, article
•  NYT, America is Losing Religious Faith, 8/25/23
• Washington Post, The world is expected to grow more religious not less,